Kanji 分 — "Part"
Here is what 分 means, how it is read, what it is built from, and a story that makes "Part" stick.
Also means: Minute, Separate
How it is read
ぶん, ふん, ぶ
the reading borrowed from Chinese — usually appears in compound words
わ.ける, わ.け, わ.かれる, わ.かる, わ.かつ
the native Japanese reading — usually appears when the kanji stands alone
How to remember it
Kanji are not random strokes. Learn the parts and the whole becomes easy. Put the parts together into one picture. The stranger it is, the harder it is to forget.
You use a Sword to slice something into Eight Parts!
- 八 Eight
Component number Eight looks like two legs stretched straight out.
- 刀 Sword
This component is the shape of a pirate sword (cutlass) handle, which has a hand guard at the hilt. This is Sword.
Words that use 分
12 of 49 words in the app that contain this kanji — the most common ones first.
- 分かる わかる to understand, to find out, to turn out
- 自分 じぶん oneself
- 分 ぶ / ぶん dividing, part
- 多分 たぶん perhaps, probably
- 随分 ずいぶん extremely, considerably
- 十分 じゅうぶん enough
- 気分 きぶん feeling, mood
- 大分 だいぶ / だいぶん fairly well, considerably, to a large extent, pretty much
- 部分 ぶぶん portion, section, part
- 処分 しょぶん disposal, dealing, punishment
- 半分 はんぶん half
- 分ける わける to divide, to separate (v.t.)
Want 分 to still be there next month?
Reading it once is not remembering it. The app brings each kanji back right before you would have forgotten it.
