ぶんだん

See also: ぶんたん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ぶんだん – see the following entries.

【分団】 [noun] a branch, section, division (of a larger organization, company, etc.)

【分断】 [noun] subdivision, dividing into parts [verb] subdivide, divide into parts

【分段】 [noun] a segment, section; the end of something, end of a section; a break, stopping place [noun] (Buddhism) abbreviation of 分段生死 (“death and rebirth; reincarnation”), 分段身 (“one who is reincarnated”), or 分段同居 (“the present world, world of the living”)

【文壇】 [noun] the literary world, literary society

(This term, ぶんだん, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)