番 fān kind, sort

HSK 6 — the top of the six old levels: 2,500 new words, 5,000 in all. You read and discuss almost anything. In HSK 3.0, 番 is in band 6. HSK 6 explained

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中番。

It means kind, or sort. Picture a friend tasting a dish you cooked. They pause, smile, and say it has a whole different sort of flavour. Want to try it out loud?

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Stroke order

番 is written in 12 strokes.

番 — the Chinese character for kind, sort (fān), stroke diagram — Stroke diagram for 番 — kind, sort

Senses

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

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Where 番 lives

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番 is pronounced fān and means “kind, sort”.