Dictionary › 分明

分明

fēn míng

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

分明 (fēn míng) means "clear; distinct; evidently". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 分明 means

1. clear
2. distinct
3. evidently
4. clearly

The characters in 分明

• 分fēnto divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad)
• 明míngbright; opposite: dark 暗; (of meaning) clear

Example sentences

• 他们分明说了谎。
  Tāmen fēnmíng shuō le huǎng.
  It was obvious that they had told a lie.

Words containing 分明

• 黑白分明hēi bái fēn mínglit. black and white clearly contrasted (idiom); fig. unambiguous; black-and-white…
• 层次分明céng cì fēn mínglayered; structured; made up of distinct parts
• 是非分明shì fēi fēn míngto distinguish right from wrong (idiom)
• 爱憎分明ài zēng fēn míngto make a clear difference between what one likes and what one hates…
• 泾渭分明Jīng Wèi fēn míngas rivers Jing and Wei separate clearly (idiom); to be entirely different

Where 分明 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 míng correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.