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时分

shífēn

time

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

time

02

period during the day

03

one of the 12 two-hour periods enumerated by the earthly branches 地支

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 时分 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 时分 appears in 8 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

他中午时分才抵达小镇。tā zhōng wǔ shí fēn cái dǐ dá xiǎo zhèn。

It was around noon when he reached the town.

傍晚时分，天空泛著紫色的光。bàng wǎn shí fēn， tiān kōng fàn zhù zǐ sè de guāng。

The sky illumined in purple in the evening.

在香港北部石篱公共屋邨的一个社区中心里，一堆堆月饼盒正等著在隔天的中秋节当天分发出去。月饼盒里装的，是本地慈善机构「惜食堂」在佳节时分收集到的 76,000 个月饼的其中一部分，将被重新分配给低收入家庭和个人。zài xiāng gǎng běi bù shí lí gōng gòng wū cūn de yí gè shè qū zhōng xīn lǐ， yī duī duī yuè bǐng hé zhèng děng zhù zài gé tiān de zhōng qiū jié dàng tiān fēn fā chū qù。 yuè bǐng hé lǐ zhuāng de， shì běn dì cí shàn jī gòu 「xī shí táng」 zài jiā jié shí fēn shōu jí dào de 76,000 gè yuè bǐng de qí zhōng yī bù fèn， jiāng bèi chóng xīn fēn pèi gěi dī shōu rù jiā tíng hé gè rén。

At a community center on Shek Lei public housing estate in northern Hong Kong, stacks of mooncake boxes are waiting to be distributed on Mid-Autumn Festival the following day. Inside they contain some of the 76,000 mooncakes that have been collected by Food Grace, a local charity, this holiday season to be redistributed to low-income families and individuals.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 时分.

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

Directly before

  • 傍晚时分5
  • 中午时分1
  • 佳节时分1
  • 清晨时分1

Directly after

  • 时分才1
  • 时分收集1
  • 时分跨越国界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 时分

What does 时分 mean in Chinese?

时分 (shífēn) means time.

How do you pronounce 时分?

时分 is pronounced shífēn.

Is 时分 an HSK word?

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

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