分类 (fēn lèi): to classify

Meaning & Stroke Order

HSK 5verb

Word info

Pinyin
Meaning: to classify
Characters: 2
Part of speech: verb
HSK level: HSK 5

Full definitions

to classify

Chinese explanation

根据事物的特点、性质或共同点，把它们分成不同的种类
把事物按照一定的标准归入不同的类别。

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Character breakdown

HSK 1

to divide

HSK 5

kind

Example sentences

The supermarket's cleaning staff must carefully sort all the garbage each day; cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, and food waste must all go into different bins.

The librarian classified and shelved the thousands of new books one by one according to author, subject, and publication year.

Doctors will further classify this complex disease based on the patient's symptoms, test results, and medical history in order to choose the most appropriate treatment plan.

The smart feature of the phone album automatically classifies photos by people, location, and time, which helped me quickly find that group photo taken at the beach last year.

In order to study the dialect features of different regions, linguists first classify the collected audio materials, and then analyze and compare them category by category.

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