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分手

fēnshǒu

to break up

HSK 4 · Topic “People around”
Two people walking away apart
Memory picture

Characters in this word

分 fēn

Strokes
4
Radical
刀 — knife
Made of
八 eight 刀 knife
How it's built
Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts

手 shǒu

Strokes
4
Radical
手 — hand
How it's built
Pictograph — a drawing of the thing

Example phrases

  • 他们分手了。 Tāmen fēnshǒu le. They broke up.
  • 我们别分手。 Wǒmen bié fēnshǒu. Let us not break up.
  • 分手很难过。 Fēnshǒu hěn nánguò. Breaking up is very sad.

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