翻
fān HSK4

flip over

翻 fān
turn over verb
to turn over, flip over, or overturn

他把书翻到了第一页。

tā bǎ shū fān dào le dì​yī yè.

He turned the book to the first page.

double verb
to multiply, especially to double in amount or value

今年的利润翻了一番。

jīn​nián de lì​rùn fān le yī fān.

This year's profit has doubled.

rummage verb
to rummage through or search by turning things over

他在抽屉里翻找丢失的钥匙。

tā zài chōu​ti lǐ fān zhǎo diū​shī de yào​shi.

He is rummaging through the drawer for the lost keys.

cross verb
to climb over, scale, or cross over a physical barrier

红军翻过了大雪山。

Hóng​jūn fān​guò le dà xuě​shān.

The Red Army crossed the Great Snow Mountains.

translate verb
to translate or decode from one language or system to another

请把这篇文章翻成英文。

qǐng bǎ zhè piān wén​zhāng fān chéng Yīng​wén.

Please translate this article into English.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,027th most common 152.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,189th most common 72.2 per million appears in 33% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
50.0 per million appears in 19% of films
Written text
115.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
18
Unicode
U+7FFB

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)