漢字Kanji · in Tools & Weapons
分: part, minute of time
Also: segment, share, degree, one's lot, duty, understand, know, rate, 1%, chances, shaku/100
八 and 刀 carry the meaning
Oracle bone · Shang Bronze · Spring and Autumn Today
Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Six readings, and the words that use each
ブンbun · on'yomi · in compounds
- 随分ずいぶんextremely
- 多分たぶんperhaps
- 十分にじゅうぶんにenough
- 自分じぶんoneself
フンfun · on'yomi
- 何分なんぷんhow many minutes
- 毎分まいふんevery minute
ブbu · on'yomi
- 大分だいぶconsiderably
- 三割五分さんわりごぶ35 percent
わけるwakeru · kun'yomi · on its own
- 分けるわけるdivide [v.t.]
わかれるwakareru · kun'yomi
- 分かれ道わかれみちcrossroads
わかるwakaru · kun'yomi
- 分かるわかるunderstand [v.i.]
Also read わけ, わかつ, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.
Where it comes from
Origin · sourced
Ideogrammic compound (會意)八 to separate + 刀 knife
To separate with a knife.
Source: Wiktionary, 分 (rev. 92695569), CC BY-SA 4.0
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Sword radical + the number eight (八) = imagine a sword cutting an object into many separate pieces; to divide into parts.”
Connections
分 gives its sound to
The family reading is フン (fun). Sound parts: KanjiVG.
Also read ブン
3 kanji share this on'yomiAlso read フン
8 kanji share this on'yomiIn ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · fēn
Same form: 分 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).
- Simplified
- 分 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 分 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin fēn most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.