分身

Chinese

		to divide; minute; (a measure word) to divide; minute; (a measure word); (a unit of leng)	body; torso; person body; torso; person; life; status; pregnancy; (a measure word used for clothes) suit
trad. (分身)		分	身
simp. #(分身)		分	身
anagram		身分

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fēnshēn

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄣ ㄕㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fan¹ san¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fēnshēn
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄣ ㄕㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: fenshen
    • Wade–Giles: fên¹-shên¹
    • Yale: fēn-shēn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fenshen
    • Palladius: фэньшэнь (fɛnʹšɛnʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fən⁵⁵ ʂən⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fan¹ san¹
    • Yale: fān sān
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fan¹ san¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fen¹ sen¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn⁵⁵ sɐn⁵⁵/

Verb

分身

1. to handle more than one thing at a time; to divide one's attention

Synonyms

• (Hokkien) 拆身

Noun

分身

1. doppelganger; avatar
2. (computing) thread; threading

Derived terms

• 分身不暇
• 分身乏術／分身乏术 (fēnshēnfáshù)

 

Japanese

Kanji in this term
分	身
ぶん Grade: 2	しん Grade: 3
on’yomi

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) ぶんしん [bùńshíń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [bɯ̟̃ᵝɰ̃ɕĩɴ]

• Homophones: 文臣, 文身, 聞診

Noun

分(ぶん)身(しん) • (bunshin) 

1. one of the bodies resulted from the split of another one into many parts
   • 2011 April 9, Hideaki Sorachi, “第(だい)三(さん)百(びゃく)三(さん)十(じゅう)八(はち)訓(くん)　隣(となり)の奥(おく)様(さま)に気(き)をつける”, in [銀](ぎん)[魂](たま) ([銀](ぎん)[魂](たま)), volume 39 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:

     オイ　おすぎ出(で)てきちゃったよ

     Oi Osugi detekichatta yo

     Hey, Osugi just spawned up.

     それでいいの‼これで二(に)分(ぶん)身(しん)は完(かん)了(りょう)

     Sore de ii no‼ Kore de ni-bunshin wa kanryō

     Very good!! You have created two clones.

     分(ぶん)身(しん)じゃねーだろ‼ある意(い)味(み)分(ぶん)身(しん)だけど‼

     Bunshin ja nē daro‼ Aru imi bunshin dakedo‼

     They ain’t friggin’ clones!! Though they kinda are in a way!!

2. parturition; delivery; childbirth
3. an offspring; an offshoot
4. an avatar or embodiment of someone in some medium; the results of this partition

   作(さく)者(しゃ)の分(ぶん)身(しん)

   sakusha no bunshin

   an embodiment of the author

5. (Buddhism) a reincarnation
6. an alter ego
7. a doppelganger