Kana: ばい

times; -fold

Example sentence

値段が去年の二倍になりました。

ねだんがきょねんのにばいになりました。

The price became double last year's.

What 倍 means

(ばい) is a Japanese word meaning “times; -fold”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at Level 2, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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