Word information
Simplified番薯
Traditional番薯
Pinyinfān shǔ
Part of speechDictionary
HSK 3.0Not listed
HSK 2.0Not listed
Character breakdown
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How to learn 番薯
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Words with the same characters
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番茄fānqié
tomato
番fān(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[fan1] to indicate how many times a quantity doubles, as in 翻一番[fan1 yi1 fan1] "to double")
薯片shǔpiànfried potato chips
翻番fānfānto double; to increase by a certain number of times
红薯hóngshǔsweet potato
三番五次sānfān-wǔcìover and over again (idiom)