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分开 (fēn kāi): meaning and stroke order

分开 (fēn kāi) means to separate, to part.

分开

Simplified
分开
Traditional
分開
Pinyin
fēn kāi

Stroke order of 分开

分

  • fēn to divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate
  • fèn part; share
  • 4 strokes

Stroke by stroke

开

  • kāi to open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 開

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 分开

  1. fēn kāi Traditional 分開
    • to separate
    • to part

Radicals of the characters

分
Radical 刀 (Kangxi radical 18) · 4 strokes · 八 on top, 刀 below
开
Radical 廾 (Kangxi radical 55) · 4 strokes · 一 on top, 廾 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

分开 in our stories

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  • 在很久很久以前，天和地还没有分开，宇宙像一个巨大的鸡蛋，里面一片漆黑，混混沌沌。

    zài hěn jiǔ hěn jiǔ yǐqián tiān hé dì hái méiyǒu fēnkāi yǔzhòu xiàng yí gè jùdà de jīdàn lǐmiàn yípiàn qīhēi hùnhùn-dùndùn

    Long, long ago, heaven and earth had not yet separated. The universe was like an enormous egg, pitch-black and formless inside.

    From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 可是，金山寺的和尚法海一眼就看出白素贞是蛇妖。他认为人和妖非分开不可，就去找许仙，告诉他妻子的真实身份。

    kěshì Jīnshān Sì de héshang Fǎhǎi yìyǎn jiù kàn chū Bái Sùzhēn shì shéyāo tā rènwéi rén hé yāo fēi fēnkāi bùkě jiù qù zhǎo Xǔ Xiān gàosu tā qīzi de zhēnshí shēnfèn

    But Fahai, a monk of Jinshan Temple, saw at a glance that Bai Suzhen was a snake spirit. Believing that humans and spirits simply had to be kept apart, he went to Xu Xian and told him his wife's true identity.

    From the story The Legend of the White Snake HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 分开

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).