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翻两番
fān​liǎng​fān

to quadruple

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
翻两番 翻兩番 fān//liǎng​fān
to quadruple
to quadruple; to double and redouble. Originally used in mahjong, this term is now commonly used in finance and economics to describe an increase of four times the original amount.

Frequency

Movie subtitles
0.060 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.888 per million

Sources

Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)