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Kanji Detail for 倍 - "double"

倍

  • Meaning

    倍 means "double." Also associated with to multiply.

    1. Double - Twice the amount.

    2. Multiply - To increase many times.

    3. Increasingly - More and more.

  • Words using 倍

    • 倍率 ばいりつ Listen magnification; leverage; amplification
    • 倍増 ばいぞう Listen doubling; double
    • 人一倍 ひといちばい Listen (much) more than others; exceedingly; extremely

  • Four-character idioms with 倍

    • 一粒万倍 いちりゅうまんばい Listen a single seed can eventually produce a great harvest; even the smallest beginning can generate a greatest profit; watch the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves
    • 薬九層倍 くすりくそうばい Listen there is a huge markup in medicines, making it a profitable field; medicines sell for ten times the cost of their ingredients

  • Tattoo check: 倍

    • Verified meaning: double
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read かさ, ばい)
    • Also carries these associations: to multiply

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 倍

    Surnames 倍(かさ)Listen 倍(ばい)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    double; twice; times; fold

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    times, fold, multiple times

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    (two, three etc) -fold; times (multiplier); double; to increase or multiply

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to double; to increase or multiply

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To multiply. Meaning to add another equal portion to the original. Such as 利市三倍 (triple profit).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    bai(バイ) バイ

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    10 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    人 亻 (hito・nimben・hitogashira・hitoyane)

  • Related Keywords

    double to multiply increasingly contradict intensify memorize separate deviate twice twofold dual duplicate increase times pair replicate rise twin elevate

Sentences including 倍

  • They're almost three times as big as we are.

  • This box is three times as big as that one.

  • The deer is three times as heavy as jane.

  • Our rent is four times as much as it was ten years ago.

  • This bridge is twice the length of that one.

  • Twice two is four.

  • You are twice as strong as i.

  • He is twice as heavy as his wife.

  • The price is double what it was last year.

  • This house is as large again as that one.

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