Conjugation
Tap for 分ける (divide)
Tap for 分かる (understand)
- 気分 — mood / feeling
- 自分 — oneself
- 十分 — enough / sufficient
- 部分 — part / section
- 分類 — classification
- 分解 — decomposition / breakdown
分 originally showed a knife cutting something into parts — the image of “dividing.” From that core idea, it expanded into abstract meanings like “to understand” (things become “clear” when separated into parts), and also into measurement, such as minutes and portions.