份 (fan6 | fen4) : portion; part; share

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份

fan6

fen4

[1] portion; part; share
[2] [classifier] portion of food, gift, etc; copy of document, newspapers, etc
[3] [suffix] unit (used after province, month, etc)
[4] variant of 分 when 分 is also pronounced fan6

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Stroke count: 6

Level: 1

Radical: 亻 (#9)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

份

Don't confuse with:
分

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 28th Apr 2011 14:08

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水份 seoi2 fan6 shui3 fen4 = moisture content

百份比 baak3 fan6 bei2 bai3 fen1 bi3 = percentage

月份 jyut6 fan6 yue4 fen4 = month

一份 jat1 fan6 = a helping, a portion, a part, a share

三份 saam1 fan6 = triplicate

部份 bou6 fan6 bu4 fen5 = section; part

成份 sing4 fan6 cheng2 fen4 = ingredients

身份 san1 fan6*2 shen1 fen4 = identity

身份證 san1 fan6*2 zing3 = identity card

天份 tin1 fan6 tian1 fen4 = talent
See all 81 compounds (CantoDict reports 92 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing 10 of 25 examples containing 份

份報紙喺盒入便粵
The newspaper is in the box.
[Lit. the newspaper at box inside]

份報紙喺盒上便粵
The newspaper is on top of the box.
[Lit. [counter] newspaper at box top]

八月是一年中的第八個月份國
August is the eighth month of the year.

買咗件蛋糕兩份食粵
I bought a piece of cake for both of us to share

佢適合做呢份工。粵
He is fit for the job.

呢份工啱晒佢做。粵
This job is fit for him.

呢度有我份漫畫作品粵
Here's some of the manga I've produced.
[Lit. Here have me [counter] manga works. (A more literal translation of the meaning would be "here are some of my manga works" but that doesn't read too well in English.)]

未免太過份
go a bit too far; be rather too presumptuous

內附表格乙份
Enclosed herewith one copy of the form

佢走咗好多冤枉路, 先至搵到呢份工。粵
He has taken many a roundabout way before finding this job.

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Decimal representation of this word: 份
Unicode code for this character: U+4efd (off-site link)

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