番 (fān)
measure word for actions/times; foreign (old term)
How 番 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 釆 — distinguish/choose
- Traditional
- 番
- Simplified
- 番 (unchanged)
Components
- 釆 distinguish/choose
- 田 field
番 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- pān
- surname Pan
- fān
- foreign; ethnic groups from outside China; (when used after a verb) times or fold; classifier for the number of iterations of an action or deed etc
Common words using 番
- 番茄 fānqié
- tomato
- 番禺 pānyú
- Panyu district of Guangzhou city 廣州市|广州市[Guang3 zhou1 shi4], Guangdong; Panyu county in Guangdong province
- 番禺區 pānyúqū
- Panyu district of Guangzhou city 廣州市|广州市[Guang3 zhou1 shi4], Guangdong
- 番茄紅素 fānqiéhóngsù
- Lycopene
- 番茄醬 fānqiéjiàng
- ketchup; tomato sauce
- 番薯 fānshǔ
- sweet potato; yam
- 輪番 lúnfān
- in turn; one after another
- 三番五次 sānfānwǔcì
- (saying) over and over again
- 吐魯番 tǔlǔfān
- Turpan City in Xinjiang (Chinese: Tulufan)
- 吐魯番市 tǔlǔfānshì
- Turpan City in Xinjiang (Chinese: Tulufan)
- 番木瓜 fānmùguā
- papaya
- 番瓜 fānguā
- pumpkin
番 in a sentence
他費了一番功夫才把電腦修好。
Tā fèi le yìfān gōngfu cái bǎ diànnǎo xiūhǎo.
“He put quite a bit of effort into fixing the computer.”
How common is 番?
番 is the 1,450th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 94.2% of all running text.
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