Home三分
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

三分

sānfēn

somewhat

IN A VIDEO三分

See this word with its surrounding sentence, pinyin, translation, and timestamp.

DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

somewhat

02

to some degree

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 三分 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 三分 appears in 3 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

麻烦牛排三分熟和一份马铃薯。má fán niú pái sān fēn shú hé yī fèn mǎ líng shǔ。

Medium-rare and a potato, please.

牛排三分熟比较好。niú pái sān fēn shú bǐ jiào hǎo。

No published English translation for this sentence.

公司员工中,就属老黄最红,大家都对他敬畏三分。gōng sī yuán gōng zhōng, jiù shǔ lǎo huáng zuì hóng, dà jiā dōu duì tā jìng wèi sān fēn。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 三分.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 三分.

Directly before

  • 牛排三分2
  • 敬畏三分1

Directly after

  • 三分熟2
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

What does 三分 mean in Chinese?

三分 (sānfēn) means somewhat.

How do you pronounce 三分?

三分 is pronounced sānfēn.

Is 三分 an HSK word?

三分 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

SEE IT IN CONTEXT

Turn your own Chinese video into a searchable learning file.

Keep English optional, place pinyin above Hanzi, and export subtitles named after your video.

Upload a video