Illustration: At a neighborhood rice cooperative, a coordinator divides rice from one large open sack among three household containers on a low platform scale. A person living alone waits beside a small container, a couple beside a medium one, and a family with several children beside a larger one.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

配はい分ぶん

haibun

to allocate, to allot

Example sentences

  1. 医療品いりょうひんは被災者ひさいしゃたちに配分はいぶんされた。

    The medical supplies were allocated to the victims of the disaster.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 食料しょくりょうの供給きょうきゅうが不足ふそくしたので、我々われわれは残のこされた少量しょうりょうを配分はいぶんしなければならなかった。

    Supplies of food were low and we had to ration out the little that was left.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 時間じかんは仕事しごとと余暇よかと勉強べんきょうに配分はいぶんされている。

    Time is allotted for work, recreation, and study.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 配分

  • 配distributeOnハイKunくばる
  • 分part; minute of timeOnブン・フン・ブKunわける・わけ・わかれる

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