No. 881 in Chinese
分钟
"Minute" (unit of time).
In a sentence
我需要五分钟完成这个任务。
I need five minutes to complete this task.
In this sentence, '分钟' is used to indicate a time duration of five minutes, which is a common application of the term.
火车将在十五分钟后到达。
The train will arrive in fifteen minutes.
Here, '分钟' indicates a future time interval, specifying that the train will arrive after a fifteen-minute wait.
这电影大约两个小时二十分钟长。
This movie is approximately two hours and twenty minutes long.
In this example, '分钟' specifies the additional twenty minutes contributing to the total duration of the movie.
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