Illustration: In a school gym, a coach holds a large mechanical stopwatch beside a child maintaining a wobbly one-legged balance. The watch face is clearly visible, with sixty unnumbered perimeter ticks and a small minute-counting subdial.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

分ふん

fun

minute

After some numbers, 分 is read ぷん. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. １０時じ４０分ふんから１１時じまで休やすみ時間じかんです。

    We have a break from 10:40 to 11:00.

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  2. もう５分ふん待まとう。

    I’ll wait another five minutes.

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  3. ９時じ１５分ふんです。

    It’s a quarter past nine.

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Kanji in 分

  • 分part; minute of timeOnブン・フン・ブKunわける・わけ・わかれる

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