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成分

chéng fèn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

成分 (chéng fèn) means "ingredient, component". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 成分 means

1. composition; ingredient; element; component
2. one's social status

The characters in 成分

• 成chéngto succeed; to finish; to complete
• 分fēnto divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to distinguish (good and bad)

Words containing 成分

• 化学成分huà xué chéng fènchemical composition
• 阶级成分jiē jí chéng fènsocial composition; social status…
• 植物化学成分zhí wù huà xué chéng fènphytochemical

Sounds the same

Read chéng fèn, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 成份variant of 成分

Where 成分 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Inclusion, Components & Structure (HSK 5), 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 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read chéng fèn correctly.
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