分

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

To separate (八) with a knife (刀)

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

分 (radical 18 刀+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 金尸竹 (CSH), four-corner 8022₇, composition ⿱八刀)

1. divide
2. small unit of time etc.
3. the number 1/10; 0.1

Derived characters

• 雰

References

• KangXi: page 136, character 4
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 1853
• Dae Jaweon: page 304, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 321, character 3
• Unihan data for U+5206

See also

• Chinese Numeral 分
  • Next: 厘
  • Last: 一
  • Last: 〇

• 丈 , 尺 , 寸

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Cantonese

Hanzi

分 (Yale fan1, fan6)

Romanization

• fan

Noun

分 (traditional and simplified)

1. (Hong Kong) fan, a traditional unit of length, legally defined as 0.1 tsun (寸) or 0.00371475 metres (米)
2. a minute of time
3. an ancient small unit of time

See also

• (unit of length): 丈 , 尺 , 寸

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Japanese

Noun

分 (hiragana ふん, romaji fun)

1. a minute (unit of time)
2. a minute (unit of angle)

分 (hiragana ぶん, romaji bun)

1. part; share

   このケーキは君の分だよ。

   kono kēki wa kimi no bun da yo.

   this piece of cake is yours. (your share; it implies there are other pieces of cake.)

分 (hiragana ぶ, romaji bu)

1. an obsolete unit of currency equal to four 両 (ryō)

Counter

分 (hiragana ふん, romaji fun)

1. minutes (duration)

Minutes in Japanese
一分 (いっぷん, ippun)	二分 (にふん, nifun)	三分 (さんぷん, sanpun)	四分 (よんぷん, yonpun)	五分 (ごふん, gofun)	六分 (ろっぷん, roppun)	七分 (ななふん/しちふん, nanafun/shichifun)	八分 (はちふん/はっぷん, hachifun/happun)	九分 (きゅうふん, kyūfun)	十分 (じっぷん/じゅっぷん, juppun/jyūppun)

Related terms

• わける (wakeru): "to divide"
• わかる (wakaru): "to understand"

Kanji

分 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ぶん (bun), ふん (fun), ぶ (bu)
• Kun: わける (wakeru), わかる (wakaru), わかれる (wakareru)

Compounds

分類 (ぶんるい, bunrui, “classification”) 分類学 (ぶんるいがく, bunruigaku, “taxonomy”) 存分 多分

半分 自分 市分

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Korean

Hanja

分
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 분 (revised: bun, McCune-Reischauer: pun)

• Name (hangeul): 나눌 (revised: nanul, McCune-Reischauer: nanul)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

分 (pinyin fēn (fen1), Wade-Giles fen¹)

Compounds

Beginning with 分

ABCDFG 分兵 分拨 分表 分辨 (to distinguish) 分辩 (to exculpate, to defend oneself) 分别 分布 分担 分寸 (the limits of proper speech or conduct) 分成 (to divide into parts) 分厂 (sub-factory or branch factory) 分发 分房 分封 (subinfeudate) 分割 (to cut up) 分隔

HIJKLM 分行* 分和 分开 分科 (subdiscipline, department, section) 分库* 分级 分局* 分解 分界 分机 分类 (n: category, type; v: to sort, categorize) 分类学 (taxonomy) 分离 (separate) 分离主义 (separatism) 分裂 (separate, split) 分裂主义 分量 (to weigh) 分力 (component of forces) 分流 (diffluence, distributary, shunt) 分明 分母 分秒 (every minute and second)

PQRST 分配 分批 分派 分片 分歧 分期 分清 分权 分区 分头 分体 分贴 分散 分身 (attend to something else, be distracted) 分数 分送 分手 分切 分却 分润

WXYZ 分析 分享 分心 分外 (particularly, especially) 分为 分销 分校* (branch school or sub-school) 分晓 (outcome, solution, clear, clearly) 分压 ((Chemistry) partial pressure) 分忧 分院* 分与 (to share with) 分野 分页 分支 分之 分赃 分子 分组 分株 分则 (special provisions) 分钟

Not beginning with 分

• 成分
• 部分
• 气分
• 区分

Usage notes

• Terms marked with * are regular formations from nouns (e.g. 分校， 分行).
• In the word 处分 (chǔfèn), this character is pronounced fèn (fen4).

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Vietnamese

Han character

分 (phân, phận, phần)