份

Mandarin · pinyin fèn

Meanings

  1. classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc
  2. variant of 分 fèn
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份
fèn · portion, part; duty
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4 · fen4

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Rime Cantonese 粵拼

ban1 · fan2 · fan6

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Definitions

  1. share; part; portion
  2. duty
  3. degree; extent; level; standard
  4. Classifier for things that are part of a whole.; part; portion
  5. (Hong Kong) a hundredth of a carat, equivalent to 2 milligrams
  6. (colloquial, used with erhua) Classifier for appearances or states.
  7. Suffix used after 省, 縣/县, 年, 月, etc.

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