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分岐 (ぶんき) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Common word JLPT N1 Freq. Frequency Top 10,000 Conjugation Meanings 1
noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb
divergence ; branching ; bifurcation
Used for roads, paths, rivers, cables, biological structures, and abstract processes such as decisions or development paths. Often appears in technical contexts (computing, mathematics, biology) but also in everyday descriptions of forks and splits.
プログラム の 分ぶん 岐き 条じょう 件けん を 確かく 認にん する 。
Check the branching condition of the program.
Kanji 分 part, minute of time, segment 岐 branch off, fork in road, scene Similar words 分わ かれる 分かれる is a more general and colloquial verb for splitting or dividing into parts, while 分岐 is a formal noun/suru-verb emphasizing a fork-like divergence, often used in technical or descriptive contexts.
枝えだ 分わ かれ 枝分かれ literally means 'branching like a tree' and is more concrete and visual; 分岐 is broader and can be used for any kind of divergence, including abstract ones.
Etymology Compound of 分 (ぶん, 'divide') and 岐 (き, 'fork in a road'). The kanji 岐 originally depicts a branching path, reinforcing the sense of divergence.
