分身

Chinese

		to divide; minute; (a measure word) to divide; minute; (a measure word); (a unit of leng)	body; torso; person body; torso; person; life; status; pregnancy; (a measure word used for clothes) suit
trad. (分身)		分	身
simp. #(分身)		分	身
anagram		身分

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fēnshēn

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄣ ㄕㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan¹ san¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fēnshēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄣ ㄕㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fenshen
    • Wade–Giles: fên¹-shên¹
    • Yale: fēn-shēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fenshen
    • Palladius: фэньшэнь (fɛnʹšɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fən⁵⁵ ʂən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fan¹ san¹
    • Yale: fān sān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan¹ san¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fen¹ sen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn⁵⁵ sɐn⁵⁵/

Verb

分身

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

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 分身

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

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
分	身
ぶん Grade: 2	しん Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• Homophones: 文臣, 文身, 聞診

Noun

分(ぶん)身(しん) • (bunshin) 

1. one of the bodies resulted from the split of another one into many parts
   • 2011 April 9, Hideaki Sorachi, “[第](だい)三百三十八[訓](くん)　[隣](となり)の[奥](おく)[様](さま)に[気](き)をつける [Lesson 338: Beware of the Housewife Next Door]”, in (deprecated template usage) [銀](ぎん)[魂](たま) ([銀](ぎん)[魂](たま)) [Silver Soul], volume 39 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:

     オイ　おすぎ出(で)てきちゃったよ

     Oi Osugi detekichatta yo

     Hey, Osugi just spawned up

     それでいいの‼これで二(に)分(ぶん)身(しん)は完(かん)了(りょう)

     Sore de ii no‼ Kore de ni-bunshin wa kanryō

     Very good‼ You have created two clones

     分(ぶん)身(しん)じゃねーだろ‼ある意(い)味(み)分(ぶん)身(しん)だけど‼

     Bunshin ja nē daro‼ Aru imi bunshin dakedo‼

     They ain’t friggin’ clones‼ Tho they kinda are in a way‼

2. parturition; delivery; childbirth
3. an offspring; an offshoot
4. an avatar or embodiment of someone in some medium; the results of this partition

   作(さく)者(しゃ)の分(ぶん)身(しん)

   sakusha no bunshin

   an embodiment of the author

5. (Buddhism) a reincarnation
6. an alter ego