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番

fān

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pān · faan1 (Jyutping)

  1. surname Pan

fān · faan1 (Jyutping)

  1. (bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian
  2. classifier for processes or actions that take time and effort
  3. (classifier) a kind; a sort
  4. (classifier) (used after the verb 翻[fan1] to indicate how many times a quantity doubles, as in 翻一番[fan1 yi1 fan1] "to double")

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Character breakdown

番

Meaning
to take turns; a turn, a time; to repeat
Radical
田
Strokes
12
Components
⿱⿱?米田
Cangjie
HDW
Four-corner
2060.9

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