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身份

shēn fèn

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word

身份 (shēn fèn) means "identity". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 身份 means

1. identity; aspect of one's identity (e.g. mayor, father, permanent resident); role; capacity (as in "in his capacity as ..." {以|yǐ} + ... + {的身份|de shēn fèn}); status (social, legal etc); position; rank

The characters in 身份

• 身shēnbody; life; oneself
• 份fènclassifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc; variant of 分

Example sentences

• 这是我的身份证。
  Zhè shì wǒ de shēnfènzhèng.
  This is my I.D. card.
• 身份证你带来吗？
  Have you brought your ID card with you?
• 你想保持匿名身份。
  Nǐ xiǎng bǎochí nìmíng shēnfèn.
  You want to remain anonymous.
• 他要了她的身份证。
  He asked her for her ID.
• 我忘了带我的身份证。
  Wǒ wàng le dài wǒ de shēnfènzhèng.
  I forgot to bring my I.D. card.
• 保镖要求看她的身份证。
  Bǎobiāo yāoqiú kàn tā de shēnfènzhèng.
  The bouncer asked to see her I.D.

Words starting with 身份

• 身份证shēn fèn zhèngidentity card; ID
• 身份卡shēn fèn kǎidentity card; ID card
• 身份政治shēn fèn zhèng zhìidentity politics
• 身份证明shēn fèn zhèng míngID card; proof of identity
• 身份识别卡shēn fèn shí bié kǎidentification card; ID card
• 身份证号码shēn fèn zhèng hào mǎI.D. number
• 身份盗窃shēn fèn dào qièidentity theft

Words containing 身份

• 有失身份yǒu shī shēn fènto be beneath one's dignity

Sounds the same

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

• 身分variant of 身份

Where 身份 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Appearance & Physical Description (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shēn fèn correctly.
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