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半分

はんぶん

half

Mnemonic

The line goes down the middle and the knife follows it. A hand はん and a bun ぶん, and you get one side of the tomato and I get the other: はんぶん.

Built from

half
A line drawn straight down the middle of something, and the two sides opened out either side of it.
part, understand
八 divide + 刀 knife

Words sharing these kanji

to understand self, oneself mood, feeling plenty part, section amount, share probably, perhaps extremely, considerably very, greatly

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