Illustration: At a family kitchen table, an adult holds a single curved ceramic shard just beside the matching gap in a broken rice bowl. The shard preserves only part of the bowl’s painted fish decoration, while the rest of the fish remains on the larger section.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

断だん片ぺん

danpen

fragment, piece

Example sentences

  1. この断片だんぺんは組くみ合あわない。

    This piece doesn’t match.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. しかし現在げんざいは塑像そぞうの断片だんぺんや木心もくしんが別途保管べっとほかんされるのみである。

    However, only fragments and wood cores are separately kept now.

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

  3. 本品ほんひんは断片だんぺんとはいえ、飛鳥時代あすかじだいの染織せんしょくの遺品いひんとしてきわめて貴重きちょうなもの。

    Although this work is a fragment of a dyed fabric, it is very precious as a relic of dyed fabrics of the Asuka Period.

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

Kanji in 断片

  • 断cut; decideOnダンKunたつ・ことわる・さだめる
  • 片one-sided; leafOnヘンKunかた-・かた

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