分身

Japanese

Kanji in this term
分	身

Noun

分身 (hiragana ぶんしん, romaji bunshin)

1. giving birth; delivery; a living thing dividing into two or more parts ((a) twin(s))
2. one's child; offspring; an offshoot; an avatar or embodiment of someone in some medium; the results of this partition

   作者の分身

   さくしゃのぶんしん

   an embodiment of the author

3. (Buddhism) the act of reincarnation; a reincarnation
4. the other self, an alter-ego

Derived terms

• 影分身 (かげぶんしん, kage bunshin) "shadow body double," (a shadow clone)

See also

• 変わり身 (かわりみ, kawarimi)

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Mandarin

simpl. and trad.
分身

Noun

分身 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin fēnshēn)

1. doppelgänger; avatar
2. (computing) thread; threading

Verb

分身 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin fēnshēn)

1. to handle more than one thing at a time; to divide one's attention

External links

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• Guoyu Cidian (國語辭典)