fèn

portion

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
亻 meaning component

  Meaning component

rén

  

person

is a component form of .

分 sound component

  Sound component

fēnfèn

  

divide

Evolution

份 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
份 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
份 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
份 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
份 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

fèn

portion, part; duty; classifier for gifts, newspaper, magazine, papers, reports, contracts etc; variant of [fèn]

Most common words with 份
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to divide

身份

identity

月份

month

股份

stock

身份证

ID