分 Kanji: Meaning, Readings and Stroke Order

分: part; minute; understand; divide. JLPT N5; 4 strokes.

Readings

On readings
ブン、フン、ブ
Kun readings
わ.かる、わ.ける、わ.かれる
Romaji
bun, fun, bu, wakaru, wakeru, wakareru

Study notes

分 means 'divide, part' and, with numbers, 'minute'; in verbs it also expresses understand (分かる).

On readings: ブン in 自分 (じぶん, self), 半分 (はんぶん, half), 部分 (ぶぶん, part), 気分 (きぶん, mood), 十分 (じゅうぶん, sufficient). フン indicates minutes and changes sound according to the number: 一分 (いっぷん), 二分 (にふん), 三分 (さんぷん), 五分 (ごふん), 十分 (じゅっぷん or じっぷん). ブ indicates a tenth or a percentage: 五分五分 (ごぶごぶ, fifty and fifty), 大分 (だいぶ, quite a lot).

Kun readings: わかる (分かる, understand) is intransitive and what is understood takes が (日本語が分かります, I understand Japanese); わける (分ける, divide, separate) is transitive; わかれる (分かれる, divide) is intransitive.

Remember: 十分 is read じゅうぶん when it means 'sufficient, enough' and じゅっぷん when it means 'ten minutes'.

Example words

Example sentences

あと十分待ってください。

ato juppun matte kudasai.

Please wait another ten minutes.

Stroke order

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