份

See also: 彬 and 分

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

份 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人金尸竹 (OCSH), four-corner 2822₇, composition ⿰亻分)

Derived characters

• 𦮪, 𪫱

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 94, character 26
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 418
• Dae Jaweon: page 201, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 124, character 12
• Unihan data for U+4EFD

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Chinese

trad.		份
simp. #		份

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 份
Warring States	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Chu slip and silk script	Small seal script
Small seal script s05692
References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).

Characters in the same phonetic series (分) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
扮	*prɯːns, *hmroːlʔ, *pɯn, *pɯnʔ
盼	*pʰrɯːns
頒	*praːn, *bɯn
朌	*praːn, *bɯn
鳻	*praːn, *bɯn
份	*prɯn, *bɯns
汃	*pʰreːd, *prɯn
玢	*prɯn
邠	*prɯn
攽	*prɯn
砏	*prɯn, *pʰrɯn, *pʰɯn
貧	*brɯn
湓	*pʰɯːns, *bɯːn, *pʰɯns
盆	*bɯːn
葐	*bɯːn, *bɯn, *bɯn
坌	*bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns
坋	*bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns
分	*pɯn, *bɯns
吩	*pɯn
粉	*pɯnʔ
黺	*pɯnʔ
芬	*pʰɯn
紛	*pʰɯn
衯	*pʰɯn
棻	*pʰɯn, *bɯn
氛	*pʰɯn, *bɯn
雰	*pʰɯn
忿	*pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯnʔ
魵	*pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯn, *bɯnʔ
汾	*bɯn
羒	*bɯn
枌	*bɯn
棼	*bɯn
妢	*bɯn
梤	*bɯn
馚	*bɯn
鼢	*bɯn, *bɯnʔ
蚡	*bɯn, *bɯnʔ
弅	*bɯnʔ
秎	*bɯns

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *prɯn, *bɯns) : semantic 亻 + phonetic 分 (OC *pɯn, *bɯns).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 份 – see 彬 (“elegant; refined”). (This character is a variant form of 彬).

Etymology 2

Variant of 分 (fèn).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fèn (fen⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄣˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): fun
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): hūn / hùn

  (Teochew, Peng'im): hung⁷

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fèn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄣˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fèn
    • Wade–Giles: fên⁴
    • Yale: fèn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fenn
    • Palladius: фэнь (fɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fən⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: fan⁶
    • Yale: fahn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: fen⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fun
    • Hakka Romanization System: fun
    • Hagfa Pinyim: fun⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /fun⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hūn
    • Tâi-lô: hūn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: hun
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /hun⁴¹/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hun³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hun²²/
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hùn
    • Tâi-lô: hùn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: huxn
    • IPA (Xiamen): /hun²¹/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: hung⁷
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hūng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /huŋ¹¹/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 份

1. share; part; portion
2. duty
3. Classifier for gifts, magazines, documents, servings.

Compounds

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Japanese

Kanji

份

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. portion
2. part
3. duty

Readings

• On (unclassified): ひん (hin), ふん (fun)
• Kun: あきらか (akiraka), うるわしい (uruwashii)

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Korean

Hanja

份 • (bin) (hangeul 빈, revised bin, McCune–Reischauer pin)

1. portion
2. part
3. duty

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 份 (phần, phân)

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