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分寸

fēn cun

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

分寸 (fēn cun) means "propriety; appropriate behavior; proper speech or action". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 分寸 means

1. propriety
2. appropriate behavior
3. proper speech or action
4. within the norms

The characters in 分寸

• 分fēnto divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad)
• 寸cùna unit of length; inch; thumb

Example sentences

• 我自有分寸。
  I know what I'm doing.
• 他说话很没分寸。
  Tā shuōhuà hěn méifēncùn.
  He has no filter for what he says.
• 我父母在的时候，请你言语注意分寸。
  Wǒ fùmǔ zài de shíhou, qǐng nǐ yányǔ zhùyì fēncun.
  Please keep your language decent while my parents are here.

Words containing 分寸

• 没分寸méi fēn cùninappropriate; bad-mannered

Where 分寸 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · fēn–fěn (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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