番
Meanings · faan1
- points for mahjong game (Cantonese)
Meanings · bo1
- chivalrous
Meanings · faan1
- foreign country
- foreigner
- foreign (non-Chinese)
- barbarian
- classifier for occurrences (of an action or deed)
- -fold (as in twofold etc)
- kind
- sort
- to take turns
- to do in turns
- back
- again
- to resume an action
- to return
- to go back
- to go to (one's school
- office
- home
- hometown)
- added after a verb to imply that the action is for the better or is with good intentions
- a loyal friend
- a brother
Meanings · po4
- white
- a surname
Meanings · pun1
- used as part of a place name
About these definitions
Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.
Reading & tones
Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.
Same syllable, six tones
Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.
Written characters
Both source spellings are represented. Written membership is not an etymological or semantic claim.
Mandarin comparison · separate source entries
CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:
- 番 Pān CC-CEDICT · Mandarinsurname Pan
- 番 fān CC-CEDICT · Mandarin(bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for processes or actions that take time and effort; (classifier) a kind; a sort; (classifier) (used after the verb 翻 fān to indicate how many times a quantity doubles, as in 翻一番 fān yī fān "to double")
A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.
CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: fan1. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.
Look up this spelling in the Mandarin dictionary ↗Compare dictionary sources Wiktionary · 19 senses · 4 Cantonese readings
Rime Cantonese 粵拼
bo1 · faan1 · po4 · pun1
Cantonese word readings for 番. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character
- to do in turns; to take turns; to repeat
- Classifier for actions, deeds: a show of ...
- Classifier for the number of times an action has been performed: turn; time
- Classifier for different kinds of things: kind; type
- A generic term for the non-Han people in China's west in historical times; (by extension) non-Han people; foreign land; foreign; non-native; barbarian
- (Malaysian Hokkien) Muslim
- (ACG) anime series (Classifier: 部)
- (mahjong) points
character
- a surname
- only used in 番禺 (Pānyú)
character
- original form of 蹯 (fán, “animal's foot”)
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 藩 (“fence”)
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 蕃 (“luxuriant”)
character
- (historical) (～縣) Po (former name of 鄱陽 /鄱阳 (Póyáng) (= Poyang): a county under the modern prefecture-level city of Shangrao, Jiangxi, China; used under the Qin dynasty)
- used in 番番 (pópó, “white; whitehaired”)
- a surname
character
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) used in 番番 (bōbō, “valiant; courageous”)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 播 (“to spread; to propagate”)
character
- (Hakka, dialectal Cantonese) Classifier for quilts.
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