ぶん

See also: ふん

Japanese

Etymology 1

Alternative spelling
打ん

Sandhi of 打(ぶ)ち (buchi, “hitting”), the

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連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 打(ぶ)つ (butsu).^[1]^[2]

The buchi- becomes bun- when prefixing a verb that starts with an n or m sound.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [bɯ̟̃ɴ]

Prefix

ぶん • (bun-)

emphasizes the following verb
indicates doing something with force

Derived terms

ぶん流(なが)す (bunnagasu): to flush something with force; to be done with something, to wash one's hands of something
ぶん殴(なぐ)る (bunnaguru): to whale on someone or something, to slug or wallop someone or something
ぶん投(な)げる (bunnageru): to throw something really hard
ぶんのめす (bunnomesu): to knock something down with force
ぶん回(まわ)す (bunmawasu): to turn or rotate something with force
ぶん回(まわ)し (bunmawashi): a compass (device for drawing circles or measuring, archaic); a rotating stage

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of ぶん – see the following entries.

【蚊】S	[affix] mosquito

【紊】H	[affix] to disturb, to confuse, to disorder

【分】2	[noun] a part, a share, a portion

【文】1	[noun] (grammar) a sentence [noun] writing, composition, text, a document [noun] a design or pattern as decoration [noun] literature, learning, scholarship [noun] elegance, refinement (especially of writing or wording) [noun] a saying, an aphorism, a proverb

【聞】2	[noun] the act of hearing something

(This term, ぶん (bun), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
For a list of all kanji read as ぶん, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ぶん.

References

^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

[KDJ-1] Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN

[DJR-2] Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

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