十分

じゅうぶん

plenty

Mnemonic

Ten, and the parts: all ten tenths of it. The same juice じゅう as 十 and the same bun ぶん as 分, money still in the account at month end and enough left to chew on the way home: じゅうぶん.

Worth knowing

Also written 充分. Careful: 十分 also reads じっぷん, meaning ten minutes, with the same two characters.

Built from

十

ten

Two strokes crossing. Every direction covered, the count closed.

分

part, understand

八 divide + 刀 knife

Words sharing these kanji

十 ten 分かる to understand 自分 self, oneself 気分 mood, feeling 部分 part, section 分 amount, share 多分 probably, perhaps 半分 half 随分 extremely, considerably 大分 very, greatly

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