翻
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to turn over; to flip over; to overturn; to rummage through; to translate; to decode; to double; to climb over or into; to cross
- HSK 3.0
- Level 4
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 18
- Radical
- 羽 +12
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 翻
- Common rank
- #714
- Unicode
- U+7FFB
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 翻
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 翻白眼 | to roll one's eyes | |
| 地牛翻身 | (Tw) (coll.) earthquake (According to a folk tale, earthquakes are caused by the occasiona… | |
| 倒海翻江 | see 翻江倒海[fan1 jiang1 dao3 hai3] | |
| 翻江倒海 | lit. overturning seas and rivers (idiom); fig. overwhelming; earth-shattering; in a specta… | |
| 后空翻 | backward somersault; backflip | |
| 翻车鱼 | ocean sunfish (Mola mola) | |
| 翻空出奇 | to overturn empty convention, and display originality (idiom); new and different ideas | |
| 前空翻 | (acrobatics) front flip | |
| 翻斗卡车 | dump truck | |
| 翻过来 | to overturn; to turn upside down | |
| 机翻 | machine translation (abbr. for 機器翻譯|机器翻译[ji1 qi4 fan1 yi4]) | |
| 翻动 | to flip over; to turn (a page); to scroll (an electronic document); to stir (food in a pot… | |
| 高翻 | (weightlifting) power clean | |
| 翻面 | to flip sth over | |
| 翻开 | to open up | |
| 翻车 | (of a vehicle) to flip over; (fig.) to go wrong; to flop | |
| 打翻 | to overturn; to overthrow; to strike down (an enemy) | |
| 翻斗车 | dump truck; tipper truck | |
| 翻新 | to revamp; a face-lift; to retread (a tire); to refurbish (old clothes); newly emerging | |
| 空翻 | flip; somersault |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 番 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 番 sound part | to take turns, to repeat; to sow; a turn | |
| 潘 | a river that flows into the Han; surname | |
| 蟠 | to occupy; to coil; curled up, coiled | |
| 蕃 | abundant, flourishing; barbarians, foreigners | |
| 幡 | pennant, banner, streamer, flag | |
| 鄱 | a county and lake in Jiangxi province | |
| 皤 | white, grey; corpulent | |
| 蹯 | paw |