倍 bèi▶ lần

Stroke order

倍 is written in 10 strokes.

• 倍

Senses

1. (two, three etc) -fold
2. times (multiplier)
3. double
4. to increase or multiply

Example sentences

• 这个比那个大两倍。Zhège bǐ nàge dà liǎng bèi.This is twice as big as that one.
• 今年的学生是去年的三倍。Jīnnián de xuésheng shì qùnián de sān bèi.This year's students are three times last year's.

Related words

• 报名đăng ký
• 本来ban đầu

倍 is pronounced bèi and means “lần”. It belongs to the HSK 4 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 倍 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.