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翻翻

fānfan
verb #16,376

Meanings

  1. 1 to flip through casually
  2. 2 to browse
  3. 3 to leaf through

Examples

你可以翻翻这本杂志。
Nǐ kěyǐ fānfan zhè běn zázhì.
You can flip through this magazine.
我随便翻翻就放下了。
Wǒ suíbiàn fānfan jiù fàngxià le.
I casually flipped through it and put it down.

Tips

grammar
Verb reduplication (翻翻 instead of 翻) makes the action sound casual and brief — 'just flip through a bit.' For two-character verbs the pattern is ABAB: 看看, 翻翻, 想想.

Stroke Order

翻 fān