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Part


Radical Combination


Meaning

Part, Minute, Divide

Mnemonic

The fins that fell onto my sword were sliced into many parts. Following this logic, this also means minute, which is part of an hour, and divide, which is the action of splitting something into many parts.

Picture the fins falling onto the sword, and being divided into many parts. And if those fins represented hours, they’d be divided into minutes. Makes sense, right?


Reading

On'yomi

ぶん, ふん, ぶ

Kun'yomi

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

Now that the fins have been cut into neat parts, it's time to cut something else: buns (ぶん).

This is how you feed your people: neatly divided, delicious buns. Picture these delicious buns divided into perfectly shaped parts. Yummy.


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