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分手

to break up

Character Composition

Characters

Pinyin

fen1shou3 • fēnshǒu

Meaning

Primary

to break up

Alternatives

break up, breaks up, broke up, breaking up, to split up, split up, to separate, separate

Mnemonic

After you 分手 break up with somebody, no 分 part of your two 手 hands will touch again. Or, if it is a particularly nasty 分手 break up, they may take a 分 part of your 手 hand with them, as some sort of sick memento.

Usage

我們 分手 吧。

Let's break up.

我們 三 年 前 就 分手 了。

We broke up three years ago.

他們 決定 分手。

They decided to break up.

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