Kana: かい

time (occurrence)

Example sentence

北京に二回行ったことがあります。

ぺきんににかいいったことがあります。

I have been to Beijing twice.

What 回 means

(かい) is a Japanese word meaning “time (occurrence)”. It belongs to the Numbers & Measure topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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