Illustration: During a picnic at a Japanese riverside park, several families move their blankets away from one overcrowded patch beneath a tree. Two adults carry a blanket outward toward an open grassy area, another family settles farther along the river, and a third walks toward a separate tree.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

分ぶん散さん

bunsan

to disperse, to spread out

Example sentences

その会社かいしゃはいろいろな国くにに投資とうしを分散ぶんさんしているね。
The company spreads their investment into a variety of countries.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
ソリの荷物にもつについては、各隊員かくたいいんが分散ぶんさんして持もつこととなった。
Things on the sled were allocated to soldiers to carry.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
路線ろせんによって乗のり場ばが分散ぶんさんしている。
The boarding areas are spread out in different locations depending on the route.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 分散

分part; minute of timeOnブン・フン・ブKunわける・わけ・わかれる
散scatter; disperseOnサンKunちる・ちらす・ちらかす

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