Entry
  1. (to play) one's part; one's role; one's duty; (to stay within) one's bounds; dutiful; keeping to one's role

Characters in this word

2
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(bound form) root; stem, (bound form) origin; source, (bound form) one's own; this, (bound form) this; the current (year etc), (bound form) original, (bound form) inherent, originally; initially, capital; principal, classifier for books, periodicals, files etc

Pinyin
běn
Strokes
5
Frequency
799 of 2500
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to divide; to separate, to distribute; to allocate, to distinguish (good and bad), (bound form) branch of (an organization); sub- (as in 分局[fen1 ju2]), fraction, one tenth (of certain units), unit of length equivalent to 0.33 cm, minute (unit of time), minute (angular measurement unit), a point (in sports or games), 0.01 yuan (unit of money)

Pinyin
fēn
Strokes
4
Frequency
1072 of 2500