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分开

fēn kāi

HSK 3.0 level 3 2-character word Traditional 分開

分开 (fēn kāi) means "to separate, to part; separately". It is an HSK 3.0 level 3 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 分开 means

1. to separate
2. to part

The characters in 分开

• 分fēnto divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad)
• 开kāito open (transitive or intransitive); (of ships, vehicles, troops etc) to start…

Example sentences

• 我宁愿分开。
  I would rather be apart.
• 请你分开包装好吗？
  Qǐng nǐ fēnkāi bāozhuāng hǎo ma?
  Could you wrap this separately, please?
• 请让我们分开付钱。
  Please bill us separately.
• 无法把两者区分开来。
  It is impossible to distinguish one from the other.
• 这个问题必须分开讨论。
  Zhège wèntí bìxū fēnkāi tǎolùn.
  This question must be discussed separately from that one.

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