HSK 2 · Meeting & staying

分开

fēn kāi

to separate

Stroke order of 分开

2 characters, 8 strokes in total. Watch the animation, then try writing it yourself.

分 · 4 strokes 开 · 4 strokes

Memory trick

A knife 八刀 splits things (分), and 开 opens the gate: pulled apart.

Parts: 分 divide (八 split + 刀 knife) + 开 open

The characters in 分开

分 fēn — fen (1/100 yuan); point (4 strokes)
开 kāi — to open; to drive (4 strokes)

Example sentence

我们不想分开。

We do not want to be separated.

Words with 分

分fen (1/100 yuan); point 分钟minute 分数score; mark 部分part 大部分most; the greater part 一部分a part 十分very; extremely 得分to score; score 分配to distribute; to assign 分组to divide into groups 分别to part; respectively; difference

Words with 开

开会to have a meeting 开车to drive 开to open; to drive 打开to open; to turn on 开玩笑to joke 开学school starts 开机to turn on (a device)开心happy 离开to leave 走开to go away 开业to open for business 推开to push open 公开open; to make public 开始to start; beginning 开发to develop 开放to open; open 开展to carry out; to launch 展开to unfold; to launch

More words: Meeting & staying

见到to see; to meet 见过to have seen 碰到to run into 碰见to run into 留to stay; to keep 留下to stay; to leave behind 占to occupy; to take up 流to flow 气air; to anger 长to grow; head; chief 当to act as; when 才only then; just 提出to put forward 提到to mention 行动action; to act 行为behaviour

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