翻 (fān)
to turn over; to translate; to flip
How 翻 is written
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 釆 — distinguish/choose
- Traditional
- 翻
- Simplified
- 翻 (unchanged)
Components
- 釆 distinguish/choose
- 田 field
- 羽 feather
Common words using 翻
- 打翻 dǎfān
- to overturn; to overthrow; to strike down (an enemy)
- 推翻 tuīfān
- to overthrow
- 翻來覆去 fānláifùqù
- to toss and turn (sleeplessly); again and again
- 翻唱 fānchàng
- cover song; to cover a song
- 翻拍 fānpāi
- to reproduce photographically; to duplicate; to adapt (as a movie)
- 翻新 fānxīn
- to revamp; a face-lift; to retread (a tire)
- 翻江倒海 fānjiāngdǎohǎi
- overwhelming flood; deluge; fig. a flood (of goods, people, information etc)
- 翻滾 fāngǔn
- to roll; to boil
- 翻牆 fānqiáng
- lit. to climb over the wall; fig. to breach the Great Firewall of China
- 翻番 fānfān
- to double; to increase by a certain number of times
- 翻看 fānkàn
- to browse; to look over (books)
- 翻箱倒櫃 fānxiāngdǎoguì
- to overturn trunks and boxes; to make a thorough search (idiom)
翻 in a sentence
請把這篇文章翻譯成中文。
Qǐng bǎ zhè piān wénzhāng fānyì chéng Zhōngwén.
“Please translate this article into Chinese.”
How common is 翻?
翻 is the 1,025th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 89.6% of all running text.
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