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份子

fèn zi

2-character word

What 份子 means

1. one's share of expenses (e.g. when buying a gift collectively)
2. cash gift

The characters in 份子

• 份fènclassifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc; variant of 分
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 我以身为这个计划的一份子为荣。
  I am proud to be a part of this project.
• 我们所有人凑份子给老师买生日礼物。
  We all chipped in to buy our teacher a birthday present.
• 我们决不会屈服于恐怖份子的要求之下。
  We will never give in to terrorist demands.
• 我们生来并非女儿身：我们成为她们的一份子。
  One is not born a woman, one becomes one.

Words starting with 份子

• 份子钱fèn zi qiángift money (on the occasion of a wedding etc)

Words containing 份子

• 出份子chū fèn zito club together (to offer a gift); to hold a whip-round
• 丢份子diū fèn zi(colloquial) to lose face; to be disgraced
• 凑份子còu fèn zito pool resources (for a gift, project etc)

Sounds the same

Read fèn zi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 分子Taiwan variant of 份子