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
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

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 份
Reading # 2/2
No. 3190
Phonetic
component 		分
Rime
group 		文
Rime
subdivision 		1
Corresponding
MC rime 		分
Old
Chinese 		/*bɯns/

Definitions

份

  1. share; part; portion
    股份  ―  gǔfèn  ―  shares
    有份 [Cantonese]  ―  jau5 fan6-2 [Jyutping]  ―  to have a part in something
  2. duty
  3. degree; extent; level; standard
  4. Classifier for things that are part of a whole.; part; portion
    把蛋糕切成四份。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]
    Bǎ dàngāo qiē chéng sì fèn. [Pinyin]
    Cut the cake into four pieces.
  5. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    一份禮物／一份礼物  ―  yī fèn lǐwù  ―  a gift
    搵份工／揾份工 [Cantonese]  ―  wan2 fan6 gung1 [Jyutping]  ―  find a job
  6. Classifier for servings.
    一份客飯／一份客饭  ―  yī fèn kèfàn  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  7. Classifier for copies, documents, newspapers, periodicals.; copy
    兩份報紙／两份报纸  ―  liǎng fèn bàozhǐ  ―  two newspapers
    我印咗廿份。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]
    ngo5 jan3 zo2 jaa6 fan6. [Jyutping]
    I printed twenty copies.
    一式兩份／一式两份  ―  yī shì liǎng fèn  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  8. (Hong Kong) a hundredth of a carat, equivalent to 2 milligrams
  9. (colloquial, used with erhua) Classifier for appearances or states.
  10. Suffix used after 省, 縣／县, 年, 月, etc.
Synonyms
  • (degree):

Compounds

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, 份らか)、うるわしい (uruwashii, 份しい)

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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