翻翻

fānfan

verb #16,376

Meanings

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

Characters

to turn over; to flip

(reduplicated for casual tone)

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