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What is the difference between 分 - ぶん and 文 - ぶん and They are both ぶんin Hiragana. Why is that? ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between 分 - ぶん and 文 - ぶん and They are both ぶんin Hiragana. Why is that? ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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Japanese has a limited number of phonetic sounds, so some pronunciations get reused and there are many homonyms. That's one reason why kanji are so useful in written Japanese, to distinguish which ぶん you are talking about.
分 = part, segment, etc.
文 = text or sentence
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