份

See also: 彬 and 分

份 U+4EFD, 份 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EFD ← 仼 [U+4EFC] CJK Unified Ideographs 仾 → [U+4EFE]

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

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).

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 份

1. share; part; portion
2. duty
3. degree; extent; level; standard
4. Classifier for gifts, magazines, documents, servings.

Synonyms

• (degree):

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• 地步 (dìbù)
• 境界 (jìngjiè)
• 水平 (shuǐpíng)
• 水準／水准 (shuǐzhǔn)
• 程度 (chéngdù)
• 高度 (gāodù)

 

Compounds

• 一份
• 九份 (Jiǔfèn)
• 份份
• 份兒飯／份儿饭 (fènrfàn)
• 份內／份内 (fènnèi)
• 份地
• 份外 (fènwài)
• 份子
• 份量
• 份額／份额 (fèn'é)
• 備份／备份 (bèifèn)
• 充份 (chōngfèn)
• 全份 (quánfèn)
• 公份
• 公份兒／公份儿
• 天份 (tiānfèn)
• 安份守己 (ānfènshǒujǐ)
• 年份 (niánfèn)
• 情份
• 成份 (chéngfèn)
• 房份
• 拔份 (báfèn)
• 月份 (yuèfèn)
• 月份牌 (yuèfènpái)
• 本份 (běnfèn)
• 水份 (shuǐfèn)
• 湊份子／凑份子 (còufènzi)
• 省份 (shěngfèn)
• 福份 (fúfèn)
• 緣份／缘份 (yuánfèn)
• 縣份／县份 (xiànfèn)
• 股份 (gǔfèn)
• 股份公司 (gǔfèn gōngsī)
• 賀份／贺份
• 身份 (shēnfèn)
• 車份／车份 (chēfèn)
• 車份兒／车份儿 (chēfènr)
• 輩份／辈份
• 過份／过份 (guòfèn)
• 逾份
• 隨份子／随份子
• 頭份／头份 (Tóufèn)

 

Descendants

• → Thai: หุ้น (hûn)

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 (uruwashī)

Korean

Hanja

份 (eum 빈 (bin))

1. portion
2. part
3. duty

Vietnamese

Han character

份: Hán Nôm readings: phần, phân

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