fēn, fèn
divide
Depicts a knife ( 刀 ) being used to cut two things apart (八).
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
fēn
divide; small unit of time etc.; to divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad); part or subdivision; fraction; one tenth (of certain units); unit of length equivalent to 0.33 cm; minute (unit of time); minute (angular measurement unit); a point (in sports or games); 0.01 yuan (unit of money)
fèn
part; share; ingredient; component
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pə[n] | pjun | fēn | divide |
*[m]-pə[n]-s | bjunH | fèn | alloted duty |
Statistics
HSK level 1
Appears in 97.3410% of movies
170th most common character in movies
79th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Unicode | U+5206 |
Shuowen | “分,別也。从八,从刀,刀以分別物也。” |
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