One third of the earth's surface is desert.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
三分之一
one third
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
one third
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 三分之一 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 三分之一 appears in 11 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
Only one third of the members turned up at the meeting.
One-third of the six members were women.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 三分之一.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 三分之一.
Directly before
- 有三分之一2
- 的三分之一2
- 约三分之一2
- 仅三分之一1
- 中有三分之一1
Directly after
- 三分之一的4
- 三分之一是4
- 三分之一处1
- 三分之一来自1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 三分之一
What does 三分之一 mean in Chinese?
三分之一 (sānfēnzhīyī) means one third.
How do you pronounce 三分之一?
三分之一 is pronounced sānfēnzhīyī.
Is 三分之一 an HSK word?
三分之一 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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