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(fēn) - minute; point; to divide in Mandarin

fēn

Traditional: 分

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Translation

minute; point; to divide

Word origin

An associative character: 八 (to divide, split apart) over 刀 (dao) 'knife'. A knife dividing something gives the sense 'to divide', extended to 'minute' and 'a fraction'.

Origin
ideograph
Root
八 ('divide') + 刀 (dao, 'knife')

Stroke order

Stroke order for 分

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Examples

。

It is ten past five.

九jiǔ。

He scored ninety points.

八bā。

Please divide the cake into eight pieces.

百bǎi。

He got a hundred points.

分 (fēn) means minute, point or to divide.

Appears in 8 words

Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 分.

分钟fēn zhōngminute部分bù fenpart, portion, section一部分yí bù fena part, a portion十分shí fēnvery, extremely, fully分手fēn shǒuto break up, to split up, to part分享fēn xiǎngto share, to share in分开fēn kāito separate, to part, to split up大部分dà bù fenmost, the majority, the greater part

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This word is part of lesson 19.