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翻番

fān fān

2-character word

What 翻番 means

1. to double
2. to increase by a certain number of times

The characters in 翻番

• 翻fānto turn over; to flip over; to overturn
• 番fān(bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for processes or actions that…

Example sentences

• 今年销售会翻番。
  Jīnnián xiāoshòu huì fānfān.
  Sales should double this year.

Sounds the same

Read fān fān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 番番time and time again