分明 (fēnmíng) means Distinct (clear). Below are 4 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
这里四季 分明 。
Zhèlǐ sìjì fēnmíng.
The four seasons here are clearly distinct.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 分明
他 分明 知道，却装作不懂。
Tā fēnmíng zhīdào, què zhuāngzuò bù dǒng.
He clearly knew, yet pretended not to understand.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 分明
温带地区四季 分明 。
Wēndài dìqū sìjì fēnmíng.
The temperate zone has four distinct seasons.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 温带
这篇文章层次 分明 ，读起来很清楚。
Zhè piān wénzhāng céngcì fēnmíng, dú qǐlái hěn qīngchu.
This article is clearly structured and easy to follow.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 层次
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How is 分明 used in a sentence?
This page shows 4 sentences using 分明 (fēnmíng, "Distinct (clear)"), 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.
Is 分明 an HSK word?
Yes — 分明 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
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