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分支

fēn zhī

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

分支 (fēn zhī) means "branch (of company, river etc); to branch; to diverge". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 分支 means

1. branch (of company, river etc)
2. to branch
3. to diverge
4. to ramify
5. to subdivide

The characters in 分支

• 分fēnto divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad)
• 支zhīto support; to sustain; to erect

Example sentences

• 分支和合并是版本控制的两种基本操作。
  Fēnzhī héhé bìng shì bǎnběn kòngzhì de liǎng zhǒng jīběn cāozuò.
  Branching and merging are two basic operations of revision control.

Sounds the same

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

• 分之(indicating a fraction)
• 分枝branch

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• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read fēn zhī correctly.
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