分门别类 — Chinese idiom
分门别类
fēn mén bié lèi
Traditional: 分門別類
Meaning
- to organize by categories; to classify
Character by character
- 分fēnto divide, to allocate; fraction; small unit of ti
- 门méngate, door, entrance, opening
- 别biéto separate, to distinguish, to classify; to leave
- 类lèicategory, class, group, kind; similar to; to resem
Idioms sharing a character
- 一分一毫 yī fēn yī háo
- 一分为二 yī fēn wéi èr
- 不分伯仲 bù fēn bó zhòng
- 不分胜负 bù fēn shèng fù
- 不分彼此 bù fēn bǐ cǐ
- 不分皂白 bù fēn zào bái
- 五马分尸 wǔ mǎ fēn shī
- 分崩离析 fēn bēng lí xī
- 分秒必争 fēn miǎo bì zhēng
- 分而治之 fēn ér zhì zhī
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