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分手

fēn shǒu

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

分手 (fēn shǒu) means "to part company". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 分手 means

1. to part company
2. to split up
3. to break up

The characters in 分手

• 分fēnto divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad)
• 手shǒuhand; (formal) to hold; person engaged in certain types of work

Example sentences

• 我们分手吧。
  We should break up.
• 我想和她分手。
  I mean to break up with her.
• 我打算与她分手。
  I plan to break up with her.
• 我要跟你分手了。
  I want to break up with you.
• 她要和男友分手了。
  She is going to part from her boyfriend.
• 汤姆和玛丽分手了。
  Tom broke up with Mary.

Words starting with 分手

• 分手代理fēn shǒu dài lǐ"break-up agent", person who acts for sb who wishes to terminate a relationship but does…
• 分手炮fēn shǒu pào(slang) breakup sex

Where 分手 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.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read fēn shǒu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.