分钟
fēn zhōng
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 分鐘
A minute counted as a length of time: how long something takes or lasts. The number goes straight in front, with no measure word: 五分钟 'five minutes', 一分钟 'one minute'. Keep it apart from clock time: 八点十分 is ten past eight, but 十分钟 is a stretch of ten minutes.
Phút, tính như một khoảng thời gian: việc gì kéo dài hay mất bao lâu. Số đếm đứng ngay trước, không cần lượng từ: 五分钟 (năm phút), 一分钟 (một phút). Tiếng Việt chỉ có một chữ “phút”, còn tiếng Trung tách hai: 八点十分 là tám giờ mười phút, 十分钟 là một quãng mười phút.
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 ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): Hán-Việt reading 钟/鐘 = chung · 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 “分钟” mean?
A minute counted as a length of time: how long something takes or lasts. The number goes straight in front, with no measure word: 五分钟 'five minutes', 一分钟 'one minute'. Keep it apart from clock time: 八点十分 is ten past eight, but 十分钟 is a stretch of ten minutes. Literally: minute clock
Is “分钟” formal or informal?
分钟 is generally neutral.