分家

Chinese

		to divide; minute; (a measure word) to divide; minute; (a measure word); (a unit of leng)	home; family; ‑ist home; family; ‑ist; ‑er; ‑ian; measure word for stores and schools
trad. (分家)		分	家
simp. ^#(分家)		分	家

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): fēnjiā

(Zhuyin): ㄈㄣㄐㄧㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fan¹ gaa¹
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): pûn-kâ / fûn-kâ

(Hailu, HRS): bun^ˋ ga^ˋ / fun^ˋ ga^ˋ

(Changting, Changting Pinyin): beng¹ ga¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): hun-ke

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: fēnjiā
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄣㄐㄧㄚ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: fenjia
  - Wade–Giles: fên¹-chia¹
  - Yale: fēn-jyā
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: fenjia
  - Palladius: фэньцзя (fɛnʹczja)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fən⁵⁵ t͡ɕi̯ä⁵⁵/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: fan¹ gaa¹
  - Yale: fān gā
  - Cantonese Pinyin: fan¹ gaa¹
  - Guangdong Romanization: fen¹ ga¹
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /fɐn⁵⁵ kaː⁵⁵/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pûn-kâ / fûn-kâ
  - Hakka Romanization System: bun^ˊ ga^ˊ / fun^ˊ ga^ˊ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: bun¹ ga¹ / fun¹ ga¹
  - Sinological IPA: /pun²⁴⁻¹¹ ka²⁴/, /fun²⁴⁻¹¹ ka²⁴/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: bun^ˋ ga^ˋ / fun^ˋ ga^ˋ
  - Sinological IPA: /pun⁵³ ka⁵³/, /fun⁵³ ka⁵³/
- (Changting)
  - Changting Pinyin: beng¹ ga¹
  - Sinological IPA: /peŋ³³ ka³³/

Note:

pûn-kâ, bunˋ gaˋ - vernacular;
fûn-kâ, funˋ gaˋ - literary.

Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hun-ke
  - Tâi-lô: hun-ke
  - Phofsit Daibuun: hunkef
  - Sinological IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /hun⁴⁴⁻³³ ke⁴⁴/

Verb

分家

to divide up family property and live apart

Synonyms

分爨 (fēncuàn)
(Hokkien) 分灶, 分鼎灶, 拆食, 分食, 拆開食／拆开食

References

小川尚義 (OGAWA Naoyoshi), editor (1931–1932), “分家”, in 臺日大辭典 [Taiwanese-Japanese Dictionary]‎^[1] (overall work in Hokkien and Japanese), Taihoku: Government-General of Taiwan, →OCLC
“分家”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Mandarin and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “分家”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 22.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
分	家
ぶん Grade: 2	け Grade: 2
on'yomi

Noun

分(ぶん)家(け) • (bunke)

a branch family

Verb

分(ぶん)家(け)する • (bunke suru) suru (stem 分(ぶん)家(け)し (bunke shi), past 分(ぶん)家(け)した (bunke shita))

start a new family line

Conjugation

Conjugation of "分家する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	分家し	ぶんけし	bunke shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	分家し	ぶんけし	bunke shi
Shūshikei ("terminal")	分家する	ぶんけする	bunke suru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	分家する	ぶんけする	bunke suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	分家すれ	ぶんけすれ	bunke sure
Meireikei ("imperative")	分家せよ¹ 分家しろ²	ぶんけせよ¹ ぶんけしろ²	bunke seyo¹ bunke shiro²
Key constructions
Passive	分家される	ぶんけされる	bunke sareru
Causative	分家させる分家さす	ぶんけさせるぶんけさす	bunke saseru bunke sasu
Potential	分家できる	ぶんけできる	bunke dekiru
Volitional	分家しよう	ぶんけしよう	bunke shiyō
Negative	分家しない	ぶんけしない	bunke shinai
Negative continuative	分家せず	ぶんけせず	bunke sezu
Formal	分家します	ぶんけします	bunke shimasu
Perfective	分家した	ぶんけした	bunke shita
Conjunctive	分家して	ぶんけして	bunke shite
Hypothetical conditional	分家すれば	ぶんけすれば	bunke sureba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative

References

“分家”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026