Taivo A Taiwan Mandarin dictionary

fān

ㄈㄢ

  1. 1(bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian
  2. 2classifier for processes or actions that take time and effort
  3. 3(classifier) a kind; a sort
  4. 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.

Keep and it comes back until you know it.

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