倍
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
倍 (ばい) is a Japanese word meaning “times; -fold”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at Level 2 (and again in Level 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.