番
fān
ㄈㄢ
- 1(bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian
- 2classifier 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")
Example
我不喜歡這番話。
wǒ bù xǐhuan zhè fān huà
I don't like these remarks.