# 份

| 份 | U+4EFD, &#20221; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4EFD |
| ← 仼 [U+4EFC] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 仾 → [U+4EFE] |

## Translingual
### Han character

份 (Kangxi radical 9, 人+4, 6 strokes, cangjie input 人金尸竹 (OCSH), four-corner 2822$_7$, composition ⿰亻分)

#### Derived characters

* 𦮪, 𪫱

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 94, character 26
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 418
* Dae Jaweon: page 201, character 2
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 124, character 12
* Unihan data for U+4EFD

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 份 :
| Warring States | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) |
| Chu slip and silk script | Small seal script |
| Small seal scripts05692 ||
| References: Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation), which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including: Shuowen Jiezi (small seal), Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions), Liushutong (Liushutong characters) and Yinxu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script). ||
| | Old Chinese |
| 扮 | *prɯːns, *hmroːlʔ, *pɯn, *pɯnʔ |
| 盼 | *pʰrɯːns |
| 頒 | *praːn, *bɯn |
| 朌 | *praːn, *bɯn |
| 鳻 | *praːn, *bɯn |
| 份 | *prɯn, *bɯns |
| 汃 | *pʰreːd, *prɯn |
| 玢 | *prɯn |
| 邠 | *prɯn |
| 攽 | *prɯn |
| 砏 | *prɯn, *pʰrɯn, *pʰɯn |
| 貧 | *brɯn |
| 湓 | *pʰɯːns, *bɯːn, *pʰɯns |
| 盆 | *bɯːn |
| 葐 | *bɯːn, *bɯn, *bɯn |
| 坌 | *bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns |
| 坋 | *bɯːns, *bɯnʔ, *bɯns |
| 分 | *pɯn, *bɯns |
| 吩 | *pɯn |
| 粉 | *pɯnʔ |
| 黺 | *pɯnʔ |
| 芬 | *pʰɯn |
| 紛 | *pʰɯn |
| 衯 | *pʰɯn |
| 棻 | *pʰɯn, *bɯn |
| 氛 | *pʰɯn, *bɯn |
| 雰 | *pʰɯn |
| 忿 | *pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯnʔ |
| 魵 | *pʰɯnʔ, *pʰɯns, *bɯn, *bɯnʔ |
| 汾 | *bɯn |
| 羒 | *bɯn |
| 枌 | *bɯn |
| 棼 | *bɯn |
| 妢 | *bɯn |
| 梤 | *bɯn |
| 馚 | *bɯn |
| 鼢 | *bɯn, *bɯnʔ |
| 蚡 | *bɯn, *bɯnʔ |
| 弅 | *bɯnʔ |
| 秎 | *bɯns |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *prɯn, *bɯns): semantic 亻 + phonetic 分 (OC *pɯn, *bɯns).

### Etymology 1

* For pronunciation and definitions of 份 – see 彬 (“elegant; refined”). (This character is a variant form of 彬).

### Etymology 2

Variant of 分 (fèn).

#### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): fèn (fen$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄈㄣˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): fan$^6$ / fan$^{6-2}$
* Hakka
    (Sixian, PFS): fun
    (Meixian, Guangdong): fun$^4$
* Jin (Wiktionary): feng$^3$
* Northern Min (KCR): hō̤ng
* Eastern Min (BUC): hông
* Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): hong$^5$ / huong$^5$
* Southern Min
    (Hokkien, POJ): hūn / hùn
    (Teochew, Peng'im): hung$^7$
* Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): $^6$ven
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: fèn
*** Zhuyin: ㄈㄣˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: fèn
*** Wade–Giles: fên$^4$
*** Yale: fèn
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fenn
*** Palladius: фэнь (fɛnʹ)
*** Sinological IPA : /fən⁵¹/
** (Standard Chinese, erhua-ed) (份兒 / 份儿)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: fènr
*** Zhuyin: ㄈㄣˋㄦ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: fènr
*** Wade–Giles: fên$^4$-ʼrh
*** Yale: fènr
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fell
*** Palladius: фэньр (fɛnʹr)
*** Sinological IPA : /fəɻ⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: fan$^6$ / fan$^{6-2}$
*** Yale: fahn / fán
*** Cantonese Pinyin: fan$^6$ / fan$^{6-2}$
*** Guangdong Romanization: fen$^6$ / fen$^{6-2}$
*** Sinological IPA : /fɐn²²/, /fɐn²²⁻³⁵/
* Hakka
** (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
*** Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: fun
*** Hakka Romanization System: fun
*** Hagfa Pinyim: fun$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /fun⁵⁵/
** (Meixian)
*** Guangdong: fun$^4$
*** Sinological IPA: /fun⁵³/
* Jin
** (Taiyuan)
*** Wiktionary: feng$^3$
*** Sinological IPA (old-style): /fəŋ⁴⁵/
* Northern Min
** (Jian'ou)
*** Kienning Colloquial Romanized: hō̤ng
*** Sinological IPA : /xɔŋ⁵⁵/
* Eastern Min
** (Fuzhou)
*** Bàng-uâ-cê: hông
*** Sinological IPA : /houŋ²⁴²/
* Puxian Min
** (Putian)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: hong$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /hɔŋ²¹/
** (Xianyou)
*** Pouseng Ping'ing: huong$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /huoŋ²¹/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hūn
*** Tâi-lô: hūn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: hun
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /hun⁴¹/
*** IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hun³³/
*** IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /hun²²/
** (Hokkien: Xiamen)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hùn
*** Tâi-lô: hùn
*** Phofsit Daibuun: huxn
*** IPA (Xiamen): /hun²¹/
** (Teochew)
*** Peng'im: hung$^7$
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: hūng
*** Sinological IPA : /huŋ¹¹/
* Wu
** (Northern: Shanghai)
*** Wugniu: $^6$ven
*** MiniDict: ven$^去$
*** Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): $^3$ven
*** Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /vən²³/
* Old Chinese
    (Zhengzhang): /*bɯns/
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 份 |
| Reading # | 2/2 |
| No. | 3190 |
| Phonetic component | 分 |
| Rime group | 文 |
| Rime subdivision | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 分 |
| Old Chinese | /*bɯns/ |

#### Definitions

份
* share; part; portion
    股份 ― gǔfèn ― shares
    有份 [Cantonese] ― jau$^5$ fan$^{6-2}$ [Jyutping] ― to have a part in something
* duty
* degree; extent; level; standard
* Classifier for things that are part of a whole.; part; portion
       Bǎ dàngāo qiē chéng sì fèn. [Pinyin]
       Cut the cake into four pieces.
* This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    一份禮物／一份礼物 ― yī fèn lǐwù ― a gift
    搵份工／揾份工 [Cantonese] ― wan$^2$ fan$^6$ gung$^1$ [Jyutping] ― find a job
* Classifier for servings.
    一份客飯／一份客饭 ― yī fèn kèfàn ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
* Classifier for copies, documents, newspapers, periodicals.; copy
    兩份報紙／两份报纸 ― liǎng fèn bàozhǐ ― two newspapers
       ngo$^5$ jan$^3$ zo$^2$ jaa$^6$ fan$^6$. [Jyutping]
       I printed twenty copies.
    一式兩份／一式两份 ― yī shì liǎng fèn ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
* (colloquial, used with erhua) Classifier for appearances or states.
* Suffix used after 省, 縣／县, 年, 月, etc.

##### Synonyms

* (degree):
* 地步 (dìbù)
* 境界 (jìngjiè)
* 水平 (shuǐpíng)
* 水準 / 水准 (shuǐzhǔn)
* 程度 (chéngdù)
* 高度 (gāodù)

#### Compounds

* 一份
* 九份 (Jiǔfèn)
* 份份
* 份兒飯 / 份儿饭 (fènrfàn)
* 份內 / 份内 (fènnèi)
* 份地
* 份外 (fènwài)
* 份子
* 份量
* 份額 / 份额 (fèn'é)
* 備份 / 备份 (bèifèn)
* 充份 (chōngfèn)
* 全份 (quánfèn)
* 公份
* 公份兒 / 公份儿
* 天份 (tiānfèn)
* 安份守己 (ānfènshǒujǐ)
* 年份 (niánfèn)
* 情份
* 成份 (chéngfèn)
* 房份
* 拔份 (báfèn)
* 月份 (yuèfèn)
* 月份牌 (yuèfènpái)
* 本份 (běnfèn)
* 水份 (shuǐfèn)
* 湊份子 / 凑份子 (còufènzi)
* 省份 (shěngfèn)
* 福份 (fúfèn)
* 緣份 / 缘份 (yuánfèn)
* 縣份 / 县份 (xiànfèn)
* 股份 (gǔfèn)
* 股份公司 (gǔfèn gōngsī)
* 賀份 / 贺份
* 身份 (shēnfèn)
* 車份 / 车份 (chēfèn)
* 車份兒 / 车份儿 (chēfènr)
* 輩份 / 辈份
* 過份 / 过份 (guòfèn)
* 逾份
* 隨份子 / 随份子
* 頭份 / 头份 (Tóufèn)

#### Descendants

* → Thai: หุ้น (hûn)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* portion
* part
* duty

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ひん (hin)、ふん (fun)
* Kun: あきらか (akiraka, 份らか)、うるわしい (uruwashii, 份しい)

## Korean
### Hanja

份 (eum 빈 (bin))
* portion
* part
* duty

## Vietnamese
### Han character

份: Hán Nôm readings: phần, phân
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