分岐|ぶんきbunki[0]heiban (flat)

Common
Definitions
  1. noun, suru verb, intransitive verbdivergence; ramification; bifurcation; branching off
    川かわは町まちの3キロ下流かりゅうで分岐ぶんきする。↗
    The river branches three kilometers below the town.
Conjugation
Dictionary form分岐する(ぶんきする)
Polite (masu)分岐します(ぶんきします)
Negative (nai)分岐しない(ぶんきしない)
polite (masen)分岐しません(ぶんきしません)
classical zu / nu分岐せず・分岐せぬ(ぶんきせず・ぶんきせぬ)
Past (ta)分岐した(ぶんきした)
polite (mashita)分岐しました(ぶんきしました)
Past negative (nakatta)分岐しなかった(ぶんきしなかった)
polite (masen deshita)分岐しませんでした(ぶんきしませんでした)
Te form分岐して(ぶんきして)
Potential分岐できる(ぶんきできる)
Passive分岐される(ぶんきされる)
Causative分岐させる(ぶんきさせる)
Causative passive分岐させられる(ぶんきさせられる)
Conditional (ba)分岐すれば(ぶんきすれば)
tara分岐したら(ぶんきしたら)
Volitional分岐しよう(ぶんきしよう)
polite (mashou)分岐しましょう(ぶんきしましょう)
Imperative分岐しろ(ぶんきしろ)

Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.

Synonyms & antonyms
  • Synonym分かれるわかれるNeutralNeutral verb for things splitting or dividing, as in 「意見が分かれる」; common in everyday speech. 「分岐」 is more written/formal and mostly about routes and processes.
  • Synonym分枝ぶんしWrittenWritten/formal prose. Covers tree branches splitting and branched chains in chemistry; 「分岐」 is for roads, processes or opinions splitting into several paths.
  • Related枝分かれえだわかれCasualColloquial. Used for branches forking off or things spinning off from a main body, as in 「枝分かれした組織」; 「分岐」 is the more written/formal term.
  • Antonym合流ごうりゅうNeutralNeutral. Rivers converging or groups merging and joining forces; the opposite of 「分岐」, which describes a split into separate paths.
  • Antonym統合とうごうWrittenWritten/formal prose. Integrating or unifying separate things into one; the opposite of 「分岐」, which splits one thing into several.

Use 「分岐」 for roads, processes or opinions splitting into several paths, also as 「分岐する」, as in 「道が分岐する」; the branching point is a 「分岐点」. For tree branches say 「枝分かれ」, and use the verb 「分かれる」 in everyday speech. The opposites are 「合流」 and 「統合」.

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Japanese definitions
  1. 一いち本ぽんだったものが、別々べつべつの方向ほうこうへ向むかって複数ふくすうに分わかれること。枝えだわかれ。
  2. 力学系りきがくけいにおける、パラメータ変化へんかによって起おこされる解かいの振る舞ふるまいの定性的ていせいてき変化へんか。
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