fèn

Traditional: 份

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Translation

portion, copy (measure word)

Word origin

A phono-semantic compound with the person radical 亻 (rén, person) and 分 (fēn, to divide) as the phonetic and semantic element, denoting a divided share or portion.

Origin
compound
Root
亻(person) + 分 (fēn, to divide)

Stroke order

Stroke order for 份

Examples

Please give me a copy of the newspaper.

chǎo

We ordered two portions of fried rice.

This is a good job.

He divided the gift into three portions.

Please make a copy for me.

份 (fèn) means a portion or share, and serves as a measure word for copies, sets and jobs. It is used for things counted in shares.

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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 份.

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This word is part of lesson 28.