Translation

• foreign (non-Chinese)
• barbarian
• classifier for occurrences (of an event, action or speech utterance)
• classifier for iterations: times, -fold (as in twofold etc)
• classifier for situations: kind, sort

Synonyms

• 派, 片
• 历届, 和, 回, 巡, 度, 次, 水, 趟, 遍, 道
• 外来, 外路, 夷, 旗, 洋, 海, 胡, 西

Examples

• 严格地讲,番茄是水果。
  Strictly speaking, the tomato is a fruit.
• 他三番五次评判别人。
  He judges other people time and again.
• 我为这次考试好好准备了一番。
  I prepared well for this examination.
• 他把我从头到脚打量了一番。
  He stared at me from head to foot.
• 我们在世界人口问题上争辩了一番。
  We debated on the question of world population.
• 她在镜前停下脚步，自我欣赏了一番。
  She stopped before the mirror to admire herself.