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1Counter for occurrences (times) — attached to numbers to count how many times something happens, e.g., 一回 (once), 二回 (twice), 三回 (three times). One of the most basic counters in Japanese.

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この映画はもう三回見た。

I've already watched this movie three times.

一回だけチャンスをください。

Please give me just one chance.

週に何回ぐらいジムに行きますか?

About how many times a week do you go to the gym?

薬は一日三回飲んでください。

Please take the medicine three times a day.

彼は何回も同じ間違いをした。

He made the same mistake over and over.

2A time; an instance — used as a noun to refer to one particular occasion, as in その回 (that time) or この回 (this time/occasion).

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彼に会ったのはその一回だけだ。

I only met him that one time.

この回の会議は特に重要です。

This time's meeting is especially important.

前回の話の続きですが——。

To continue from last time's conversation —

3Inning (baseball); round; period of play — used as a unit to divide the progress of a game, especially in baseball.

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試合は五回裏に逆転された。

The game was turned around in the bottom of the fifth inning.

三回の表にホームランが出た。

A home run was hit in the top of the third inning.

九回まで投げ切ったピッチャーは見事だった。

The pitcher who threw all the way to the ninth inning was magnificent.

4Episode; chapter; installment — a colloquial noun/suffix usage for one segment of a TV show, serialized story, or streaming series, as in 今週の回 (this week's episode) or 最終回 (final episode).

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この回のテーマは友情だった。

The theme of this episode was friendship.

先週の回を見逃したから、今夜配信で見るつもりだ。

I missed last week's episode, so I'm going to catch it on streaming tonight.

最終回はとても感動的だった。

The final episode was really moving.

5An abbreviation for the Hui people (回族), a Muslim ethnic group in China. Effectively never used standalone in modern Japanese; appears only as part of the compound 回族.

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6An abbreviation for 回教, an older Japanese term for Islam. Modern Japanese uses イスラム教 instead; the bare 回 in this meaning is essentially never seen in contemporary writing.

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