番
Ancient forms
2 formsGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
- foreign (non-Chinese)
- barbarian
- classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance)
- classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc)
- classifier for situations: kind, sort
Pān pan1
- surname Pan
Example sentences
- Strictly speaking, the tomato is a fruit.
HSK words with 番
More words with 番
- 生番 shēngfān barbarian
- 里番 lǐfān erotic anime; pornographic animation (loanword modeled on Japanese 裏番組 ura bangumi, "program aired opposite another", reinterpreted in Chinese ACG usage as "adult anime")
- 番号 fānhào number of military unit
- 连番 liánfān repeatedly
- 番菜 fāncài foreign food
- 番客 fānkè (dialect) overseas Chinese
- 番界 fānjiè territory occupied by aborigines in Taiwan (old)
- 番刀 fāndāo type of machete used by Taiwan aborigines, worn at the waist in an open-sided scabbard