分 fēn / fèn in a sentence
Divide (branch - fraction - minute - cent - mark); Limit
分 (fēn / fèn) means Divide (branch - fraction - minute - cent - mark), Limit. Below are 24 of the 179 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
请把蛋糕 分 成四块。
Qǐng bǎ dàngāo fēnchéng sì kuài.
Please divide the cake into four pieces.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 分
说话要有 分 寸。
Shuōhuà yào yǒu fēncun.
One should speak with a sense of proportion.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 分寸
这里四季 分 明。
Zhèlǐ sìjì fēnmíng.
The four seasons here are clearly distinct.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 分明
情况万 分 紧急。
Qíngkuàng wànfēn jǐnjí.
The situation is extremely urgent.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 万分
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From the graded readers
坐车要二十 分 钟。
zuò chē yāo èrshí fēnzhōng.
It takes twenty minutes by bus.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going to School
那时候只要十 分 钟。
nàshí hòu zhǐyào shífēn zhōng.
Then it only takes ten minutes.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going to School
九点十 分 ，她的车快开了。
jiǔ diǎn shífēn, tā de / dì chē kuài kāile.
At ten past nine her train was about to leave.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Saying Goodbye
我骑车去学校，要三十 分 钟。
wǒ qí chē qù xuéxiào, yāo sānshí fēnzhōng.
I cycle to school; it takes thirty minutes.
Graded reader · HSK 1 · Going to School
超市离我家很近，走路只要十 分 钟。
chāo shì lí wǒ jiā hěn jìn, zǒulù zhǐyào shífēn zhōng.
The supermarket is close to us — ten minutes on foot.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · At the Supermarket
第一天，我跑了八 分 钟就跑不动了。
dìyī tiān, wǒ pǎo le / liǎo / liào bā fēnzhōng jiù pǎo budòng le / liǎo / liào.
On the first day I lasted eight minutes before I couldn't go on.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
我最后还是出门了，只跑了十五 分 钟。
wǒ zuìhòu háishì chū mén le / liǎo / liào, zhī pǎo le / liǎo / liào shíwǔ fēnzhōng.
In the end I went out anyway, and only ran fifteen minutes.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Keeping Up Running
那家公司在市中心，坐地铁要四十 分 钟。
nà / nèi jiā gōngsī zài shì zhōngxīn, zuò dìtiě yāo sìshí fēnzhōng.
The company is in the city centre, forty minutes by underground.
Graded reader · HSK 3 · The Job Interview
等着付钱的人非常多，我排了二十 分 钟的队。
děngzhe fù qián de / dì rén fēicháng duō, wǒ pái le / liǎo / liào èrshí fēnzhōng de / dì duì.
There were a lot of people waiting; I queued for twenty minutes.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · At the Supermarket
From the travel phrasebook
这个要等二十 分 钟。
Zhège yào děng èrshí fēnzhōng.
That one takes twenty minutes.
Travel phrasebook · Reading a Chinese menu
不良率是百 分 之五。
Bùliánglǜ shì bǎi fēn zhī wǔ.
The defect rate is five per cent.
Travel phrasebook · Quality problems and claims
可以先付百 分 之三十吗？
Kěyǐ xiān fù bǎi fēn zhī sānshí ma?
Could we pay 30% up front?
Travel phrasebook · Negotiating and pricing
分 appears in 179 sentences on this site; the 24 shortest and most direct are shown. The rest are on the pages they were written for — the graded readers, the phrasebook and the grammar library.
Words that contain 分
Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.
Questions about 分
How is 分 used in a sentence?
This page shows 179 sentences using 分 (fēn / fèn, "Divide (branch - fraction - minute - cent - mark), Limit"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 分 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 分 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 分 an HSK word?
Yes — 分 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 分?
The dictionary page for 分 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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