Illustration: Beside a Japanese allotment garden, water rushes along one narrow irrigation channel and reaches a clear Y-shaped junction. From that single stream, two streams split away toward separate vegetable beds, both visibly carrying fallen leaves.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

分ぶん岐き

bunki

to branch off

Example sentences

  1. 川かわは町まちの３キロ下流かりゅうで分岐ぶんきする。

    The river branches three kilometers below the town.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 山科やましなを出でると、東海道本線とうかいどうほんせんと分岐ぶんきし、長等山ながらやまトンネルに入はいる。

    After leaving Yamashina Station, the Kosei Line branches off the Tokaido Main Line and enters the Nagarayama tunnel.

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

  3. このような景色けしきを過すぎ、桜井線さくらいせんが分岐ぶんきしている奈良駅ならえきに着つく。

    After running through such scenery, the trains arrive at Nara Station where the Sakurai Line diverges.

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

Kanji in 分岐

  • 分part; minute of timeOnブン・フン・ブKunわける・わけ・わかれる
  • 岐branch off; fork in roadOnキ・ギ

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