Illustration: Inside a Japanese neighborhood dumpling workshop, three workers form a clear production sequence along one counter. The first rolls small dough discs, the second places filling onto each disc, and the third folds and crimps the filled wrappers into finished dumplings.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

分ぶん業ぎょう

bungyou

division of labor

Example sentences

  1. その精巧せいこうさから制作工程せいさくこうていは細分化さいぶんかされており、各工程かくこうていが分業ぶんぎょう化かされている。

    Due to its delicate characteristics, the production process is divided into several phases, with each phase employing smaller tasks.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. これも調理ちょうり、接客せっきゃく、管理かんりなどの分業ぶんぎょう化かが進すすんだフランス料理りょうりと比くらべると引ひき立たつ特徴とくちょうである。

    This is also a conspicuous feature of nihon-ryori restaurants, compared with French restaurants where the jobs of the personnel are clearly divided, for example, into cooking, customer service, and management.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 分業ぶんぎょうの場合ばあい、まず染そめ職人しょくにんが工房こうぼうに保管ほかんしてある膨大ぼうだいな図案見本ずあんみほんを参考さんこうに、下絵したえを書かき始はじめる。

    In the case of the division of labor, first a dyeing artisan draws a preliminary sketch with reference to a huge amount of design samples stored in the workshop.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 分業

  • 分part; minute of timeOnブン・フン・ブKunわける・わけ・わかれる
  • 業business; vocationOnギョウ・ゴウKunわざ

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