份儿 (fèn r) — (noun, colloquial) extent, degree (used in fixe…

Definition

Colloquial noun for 'extent / degree' (到这份儿上) or 'share' (有份儿). Almost always appears inside fixed phrases rather than on its own.

noun

(noun, colloquial) extentdegree (used in fixed phrases like 到这份儿上, 这份儿事)(noun, colloquial) shareportion (人人有份儿, 没那份儿本事)

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Wǒ zhēn méi xiǎng dào shì qing huì fā zhǎn dào zhè fèn r shàng.
I really didn't expect things to develop to this extent.
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Zhè cì de jiǎng jīn rén rén dōu yǒu fèn r, nǐ bú yòng dān xīn.
Everyone gets a share of this bonus, so don't worry.
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Tā gēn běn méi nà fèn r nài xīn qù zuò zhè ge gōng zuò.
He simply doesn't have that kind of patience to do this job.

Derived word

构词法gòucífǎ

后缀hòuzhuìSuffix

A fixed syllable at the end that turns the word into a noun, a person, a place or the like.

份fènshare; degree

份 already carries the share/degree sense; 儿 just adds the colloquial erhua sound.

Characters in this word

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

亻分份

Meaning part形符xíngfú

亻Written in full as人rén

Sound part声符shēngfú

分

分fēn份fèn(r)

Same sound today

份 is built from 亻, the person form written in full as 人, and 分, which gives the sound.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape 儿 is a simple drawing of a standing person, used as an alternate form of the character for person.

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