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  • 1

    n.point; mark

    • tā yīng yǔ kǎo le jiǔ shí fēn

      英语

      She got 90 marks in the English examination.

    • liù shí fēn wéi jí gé

      六十及格

      Sixty is the passing mark.

    • wǒ zài zhè cì kǎo shì zhōng dé le shí fēn

      这次考试

      I got ten points in this test.

  • 2

    n.fen, a fractional unit of money in China (=1/100 of a yuan or 1/10 of a jiao)

    • liù yuán sān jiǎo wǔ fēn

      6.35 yuan

  • 3

    measure wordminute (=1/60 of an hour)

    • sān diǎn sì shí wǔ fēn

      a quarter to four

    • xiàn zài shì qī diǎn chà wǔ fēn

      现在

      It is five minutes to seven.

    • wǒ zài liù diǎn shí fēn qǐ chuáng

      起床

      I get up at ten past six.

  • 4

    adj.branch (of an organization)

    • yín háng fēn xíng bù kě yǐ bàn lǐ zhè lèi yè wù

      银行可以办理业务

      This kind of business cannot be settled in the branch of the bank.

    • zhè jiā gōng sī yǒu duō shǎo jiān fēn gōng sī

      公司多少公司

      How many branch do the company have?

    • gāi chū bǎn shè zài quán guó gè dì dōu shè yǒu fēn háng

      出版社全国各地

      The publisher has branches in all parts of the country.

  • 5

    n.(for evaluation of nonphysical things) one-tenth

    • shí fēn

      very much

    • qī fēn chéng jì sān fēn cuò wù

      成绩错误

      70 percent achievements, 30 percent mistakes

  • 6

    v.divide; separate; split

    • tā men fēn le nà bǐ qián

      他们

      They divided the money among themselves.

    • zhè yào měi tiān fēn sān cì chī

      每天

      This medicine is to be taken in three separate doses every day.

    • shì wù dōu shì yī fēn wéi èr de

      事物

      All things invariably divide into two.

  • 7

    v.distribute; assign; allot

    • zhè gōng zuò fēn gěi nǐ

      工作

      This job is assigned to you.

    • tā bǎ rèn wù fēn wǒ le

      任务

      She assigned the task to me.

    • tā lín zhōng qián bǎ cái chǎn fēn gěi zǐ nǚ le

      临终财产子女

      He divided his property among his children on deathbed.

  • 8

    v.distinguish; differentiate

    • tā shì fēi bù fēn

      是非

      He couldn't distinguish right from wrong.

    • wǒ zǒng shì fēn bù qīng tā hé tā de dì di

      总是弟弟

      I can never tell him from his brother.

    • liǎng duì xiàn zài hái nán fēn shèng fù

      现在胜负

      Now it's still a tossup between the two teams.

  • 9

    measure wordunit of length (1 fen=1/3 centimetre or 1/10 cun)

    • fēn cùn

      sense of propriety

    • sān chǐ líng wǔ fēn

      three chi and half a cun

  • 10

    n.fraction

    • yuē fēn

      reduction of a fraction

    • tōng fēn

      reduce a fraction to its lowest terms

  • 11

    n.(used for fractions and percentages)

    • èr fēn zhī yī

      half

    • shí fēn zhī yī

      one-tenth

    • bǎi fēn zhī wǔ

      five percent

  • 12

    n.one tenth (of certain units of the metric system)

    • yǒu shí fēn bǎ wò

      把握

      be hundred-percent sure

  • 13

    n.fen, a unit of area (=66.666 square metres)

    • sān mǔ qī fēn dì

      3.7 mu of land

  • 14

    n.fen, a unit of weight (=1/2 gram)

    • èr liǎng sì qián wǔ fēn

      2.45 liang

  • 15

    measure wordminute (=1/60 of a degree of angle or arc)

    • dōng jīng dù fēn

      东经12915

      129 degrees 15 minutes east longitude

    • chéng dù fēn jiǎo

      3630

      form an angle of 36 degrees 30 minutes

  • 16

    n.rate of interest

    • nián lì yī fēn wǔ

      年利

      15% annual interest

    • nián lì yī fēn

      年利

      10% interest a year

    • nián lì èr fēn

      年利

      20% interest per year

Words and phrases with 分

Word usage

  • Note
    When pronounced as "fēn", "分" means action and also used as a quantifier; when pronounced as "fèn", it often means things, such as "分量" and "情分" .

Similar-form characters to 分

Chinese Characters with pinyin fēn

  • numerous; chaos
  • atmosphere
  • fragrance
  • used as a component of 吩咐
  • phenol