分钟 (fēnzhōng) means Minute. Below are 24 of the 25 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
一 分钟 有六十秒。
Yì fēnzhōng yǒu liùshí miǎo.
There are sixty seconds in a minute.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 秒
我的手表慢了五 分钟 。
Wǒ de shǒubiǎo màn le wǔ fēnzhōng.
My watch is five minutes slow.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 手表
我们提前十 分钟 到了。
Wǒmen tíqián shí fēnzhōng dào le.
We arrived ten minutes early.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 提前
现在离上课还有十 分钟 。
Xiànzài lí shàng kè hái yǒu shí fēnzhōng.
There are still ten minutes before class.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 离
那儿不远，走路十 分钟 。
Nàr bù yuǎn, zǒu lù shí fēnzhōng.
It's not far — ten minutes on foot.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 远
飞机将在十 分钟 后降落。
Fēijī jiāng zài shí fēnzhōng hòu jiàngluò.
The plane will land in ten minutes.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 降落
时间不多了，只剩十 分钟 。
Shíjiān bù duō le, zhǐ shèng shí fēnzhōng.
There is not much time; only ten minutes left.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 剩
两班车的间隔是十五 分钟 。
Liǎng bān chē de jiàngé shì shíwǔ fēnzhōng.
The interval between the two buses is fifteen minutes.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 间隔
从这儿走路去学校要十 分钟 。
Cóng zhèr zǒu lù qù xuéxiào yào shí fēnzhōng.
It's a ten-minute walk from here to school.
Dictionary example · HSK 2 · 走
演出的高潮出现在最后十 分钟 。
Yǎnchū de gāocháo chūxiàn zài zuìhòu shí fēnzhōng.
The high point of the performance came in the final ten minutes.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 高潮
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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
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
我在路口等公共汽车，等了十 分钟 ，车还没有来。
wǒ zài lù kǒu děng gōnggòngqìchē, děng le / liǎo / liào shífēn zhōng, chē hái / huán méiyǒu lái.
I waited at the corner for the bus; after ten minutes it still hadn't come.
Graded reader · HSK 2 · Late for Work
四年里说了那么多话，最后十 分钟 反而说不出来。
sìnián lǐ shuōle nàme duō huà, zuìhòu shífēn zhōng fǎn'ér shuō bùchū lái.
Four years of talking, and in the last ten minutes we couldn't manage anything.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · Saying Goodbye
后面的八 分钟 ，我说得比在宿舍里练习的时候还流利。
hòumian de / dì bā fēnzhōng, wǒ shuō dé / děi / de bǐ zài sùshè lǐ liànxí de / dì shíhou hái / huán liúlì.
For the next eight minutes I spoke more fluently than I ever had practising in my dorm.
Graded reader · HSK 4 · My First Speech
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
分钟 appears in 25 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.
Questions about 分钟
How is 分钟 used in a sentence?
This page shows 25 sentences using 分钟 (fēnzhōng, "Minute"), 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 分钟 an HSK word?
Yes — 分钟 is on the official HSK 1 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 1 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 分钟?
The dictionary page for 分钟 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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