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吩咐

fēn fu

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

吩咐 (fēn fù) means "to tell; to instruct; to command". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 吩咐 means

1. to tell; to instruct; to command

The characters in 吩咐

• 吩fēnused in 吩咐; used in transliteration of chemical compounds
• 咐fùused in 吩咐

Example sentences

• 接下来该怎么做，我完全听从您的吩咐。
  Jiēxiàlái gāi zěnme zuò, wǒ wánquán tīngcóng nín de fēnfù.
  I will follow your advice fully from here onwards.
• 接下来该怎幺做，我完全听从您的吩咐。
  I will follow your advice fully from here onwards.
• 国王听信了骗子的话，吩咐裁缝师准备这套服装，但其实裁缝师也看不见这块布料。
  The king, convinced, told the tailors to prepare the outfit, but he also couldn't see this material.

Sounds the same

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

• 分付variant of 吩咐

Where 吩咐 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 fu correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.