How to say "parting" in Japanese

• 別れわかれJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounParting between people: the moment of separation, or the farewell itself, as when friends, lovers or family members go their separate ways.
  会あうは別わかれの始はじめ。↗

  To meet is to part.
• 別離べつりCommon
  noun, suru verbParting or separation, especially from someone close such as family or a loved one; it centers on the separation itself — the fact of being parted — rather than the moment of saying goodbye.
• 決別けつべつCommon
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbA parting with a note of finality: cutting ties with someone once and for all, a decisive break or farewell rather than a parting that may be only temporary.
  仲間なかまと決別けつべつしてから、他たのプレイヤーを邪魔じゃまするようになった・・。↗

  After the break-up with her game partners she started to make trouble for other players.
• 振り分けふりわけCommon
  nounHere 'parting' means the physical sense: dividing or separating things into portions and distributing them. For people parting or saying farewell, this is not the word you want.

Use 「別れ」 for a parting or farewell between people, 別離 for parting as separation, 決別 for a final, decisive break with someone, and 「振り分け」 only for physically dividing or distributing things.

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• 別れわかれparting (of people)
• 別離べつりparting
• 決別けつべつseparation
• 振り分けふりわけdivide
• パーティングparting
• お別れおわかれparting
• 一別いちべつparting
• 分袂ぶんべいparting (from someone)
• 別れに臨んわかれにのぞんparting (with)
• 分け目わけめdividing line
• バイバイsaying goodbye
• 名残なごり(the sorrow of) parting