分
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In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A minute in a clock time; it follows the hour and the number of minutes. 八点二十分 is 8:20, and in speech the last word is often dropped: 八点二十. A length of time takes 分钟 instead: 二十分钟 'twenty minutes'. It is also a cent (a hundredth of a 元) and a point in a test: 九十分 'ninety points'.
Phút trong giờ đồng hồ, đứng sau số giờ và số phút. Thứ tự giống tiếng Việt: 八点二十分 là tám giờ hai mươi phút, khi nói thường bỏ chữ cuối (八点二十). Một khoảng thời gian thì dùng 分钟: 二十分钟 (hai mươi phút). Chữ này còn là xu (một phần trăm của 元) và điểm bài thi: 九十分 (chín mươi điểm).
ClassifierRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 064 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “分” mean?
A minute in a clock time; it follows the hour and the number of minutes. 八点二十分 is 8:20, and in speech the last word is often dropped: 八点二十. A length of time takes 分钟 instead: 二十分钟 'twenty minutes'. It is also a cent (a hundredth of a 元) and a point in a test: 九十分 'ninety points'.
Is “分” formal or informal?
分 is generally neutral.