fèn
portion
Phonosemantic compound. 亻 represents the meaning and 分 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 74.6756% of movies
463rd most common character in movies
784th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+4EFD |
Shuowen | “份,文質僣也。从人,分聲。《論語》曰:‘文質份份。’彬,古文份从彡、林。林者,从焚省聲。” |
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