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分布

fēn bù

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Traditional 分佈

分布 (fēn bù) means "to be distributed". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 分布 means

1. to scatter
2. to distribute
3. to be distributed (over an area etc)
4. (statistical, geographic) distribution

The characters in 分布

• 分fēnto divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad)
• 布bùcloth; to declare; to announce

Example sentences

• 苗瑶语系的语言分布于东南亚和中国南方山区。
  Languages in the Hmong-Mien language family, also referred to as the Miao-Yao language family, are spoken across Southeast Asia and mountainous areas of southern China.
• 在图形上，正态分布是一种钟形曲线，越接近中心，取值越大，越远离中心，取值越小。
  Zài túxíng shàng, zhèngtài fēnbù shì yī zhǒng zhōngxíng qūxiàn, yuè jiējìn zhōngxīn, qǔ zhí yuè dà, yuè yuǎnlí zhōngxīn, qǔ zhí yuè xiǎo.
  In its graphical representation, the normal distribution is a bell-shaped curve, with the value growing as one moves closer to the middle and decreasing as one moves away.

Words starting with 分布

• 分布式fēn bù shìdistributed
• 分布图fēn bù túscatter diagram; distribution chart; histogram
• 分布式结构fēn bù shì jié gòudistributed architecture
• 分布式环境fēn bù shì huán jìngdistributed environment (computing)
• 分布控制fēn bù kòng zhìdistributed control
• 分布式网络fēn bù shì wǎng luòdistributed network

Words containing 分布

• 频数分布pín shù fēn bùfrequency distribution
• 常态分布cháng tài fēn bùnormal distribution (in statistics)
• 正态分布zhèng tài fēn bù(math) normal distribution; Gaussian distribution
• 泊松分布Bó sōng fēn bùPoisson distribution (in statistics)
• 光纤分布数据接口guāng xiān fēn bù shù jù jiē kǒuFiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
• 光纤分布式数据接口guāng xiān fēn bù shì shù jù jiē kǒuFiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)

Sounds the same

Read fēn bù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 分部branch; subsection; to subdivide

Where 分布 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Measurement, Quantity & Units (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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