Pinyin: shuāng

pair; both

Example sentence

我买了一双皮鞋。

Wǒ mǎi le yì shuāng píxié.

I bought a pair of leather shoes.

What 双 means

(shuāng) is a Chinese word meaning “pair; both”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at HSK 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Chinese.

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