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分裂

fēn liè

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

分裂 (fēn liè) means "to split up; to divide; to break up". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 分裂 means

1. to split up
2. to divide
3. to break up
4. fission
5. schism

The characters in 分裂

• 分fēnto divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad)
• 裂lièto split; to crack; to break open

Example sentences

• 进入地球大气层后，小行星分裂成了无数的小块。
  Jìnrù dìqiú dàqìcéng hòu, xiǎoxíngxīng fēnliè chéngle wúshù de xiǎo kuài.
  The asteroid broke up into small pieces as it entered Earth's atmosphere.

Words starting with 分裂

• 分裂主义fēn liè zhǔ yìseparatism
• 分裂组织fēn liè zǔ zhīseparatist group; (botany) meristem
• 分裂情感性障碍fēn liè qíng gǎn xìng zhàng àischizoaffective disorder

Words containing 分裂

• 精神分裂症jīng shén fēn liè zhèngschizophrenia
• 核分裂hé fēn liènuclear fission
• 反分裂法fǎn fēn liè fǎanti-secession law of 2005 (whereby PRC claims the right to invade Taiwan)
• 有丝分裂yǒu sī fēn lièmitosis
• 减数分裂jiǎn shù fēn liè(biology) meiosis
• 无丝分裂wú sī fēn lièamitosis
• 细胞分裂xì bāo fēn liècell division
• 二分裂èr fēn lièbinary division (in bacterial reproduction)
• 类精神分裂型人格违常lèi jīng shén fēn liè xíng rén gé wéi chángschizoid personality disorder (SPD)

Sounds the same

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

• 分列to divide into rows; to identify subcategories; to break down into constituent parts

Where 分裂 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.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
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