Illustration: At a Japanese apartment's dining table, a parent shows a child a round cheesecake cut into eight equal wedges. All eight remain in their original circular arrangement, with narrow gaps making every division easy to count.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

分ぶん母ぼ

bunbo

denominator

Example sentences

この分数ぶんすうの分母ぶんぼは五ごです。
The denominator of this fraction is five.
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足たし算ざんの前まえに分母ぶんぼをそろえましょう。
Let’s make the denominators the same before adding.
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答こたえを書かくとき、分母ぶんぼを間違まちがえた。
I got the denominator wrong when I wrote the answer.
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Kanji in 分母

分part; minute of timeOnブン・フン・ブKunわける・わけ・わかれる
母motherOnボKunはは・も

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