🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

分开

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fēn kāi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Divided/dɪˈvaɪ.dɪd/
adjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #850 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"社区在新政策上分开。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Separated into parts or groups.

    "The community was divided over the new policy."
As verb
  1. 1

    Past tense of divide; to separate into parts.

    "The cake was divided among the children."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb dividere, meaning to force apart, distribute, or sever. Entering Middle English via Old French devider in the 14th century, the semantic scope expanded from physical separation to conceptual and social disagreement.

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