翻 番

fānfān

“To double” in Chinese is 翻番 (fānfān).

Meaning

to double
to increase by a certain number of times

Example

今年销售会翻番。

Sales should double this year.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

fānHSK 418 strokesto turn over fānHSK 612 strokesforeign (non-Chinese); barbarian

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