分
Meaning
- to divide; to separate
- to distribute; to allocate
- to distinguish (good and bad)
Example sentence
他是非不分。
He has no sense of right and wrong.
The character 分
分 is 八, splitting, over 刀, a knife. It divides — 分开, 分别, 部分 a part — and it names what a division leaves: a minute of an hour (分钟), a cent of a yuan, a mark out of a hundred (分数).
Words containing 分
- 部分 bù fen part; portion; piece
- 大部分 dà bù fen the greater part; the majority; most
- 分开 fēn kāi to separate
- 分数 fēn shù (exam) grade
- 分钟 fēn zhōng minute
- 十分 shí fēn very
- 一部分 yī bù fen portion
- 得分 dé fēn to score a point (in a competition, test etc)
- 分别 fēn bié to part; to leave each other
- 分配 fēn pèi to distribute
- 分组 fēn zǔ to divide into groups
- 比分 bǐ fēn score (of a game or competition)
- 充分 chōng fèn ample
- 分布 fēn bù to scatter
- 分散 fēn sàn to scatter
- 分手 fēn shǒu to part company
- 分为 fēn wéi to divide sth into (parts); to subdivide
- 分之 fēn zhī (indicating a fraction)
- 过分 guò fèn excessive; undue
- 学分 xué fēn course credit