Onyomi: フン · Kunyomi: こ, こな, デシメートル · Meanings: dust, flour, powder
Kanji for dust, flour, powder
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粉 is formed from the rice radical 米 on the left and the character 分 on the right. 米 represents grains, while 分 means to divide or separate. Together, they show grains being divided into very small pieces. From this structure, 粉 came to mean powder or flour.
粉 shows grains divided into small pieces, meaning powder.
Think of rice grains (米) being divided and broken apart (分) until they become very fine. Those fine, tiny pieces are 粉, powder.
| Word | Reading | Meaning | Meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 粉 | こな | flour, meal, powder, dust | common JLPT-N3 Noun |
| 粉 | デシメートル | decimetre, decimeter | Noun |
| 粉末 | ふんまつ | fine powder | common JLPT-N1 Noun, Noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no' |
| 粉々 | こなごな | in very small pieces | JLPT-N1 Na-adjective (keiyodoshi), Noun |
| 粉砕 | ふんさい | pulverization, pulverisation | Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb |
| 粉末冶金 | ふんまつやきん | powder metallurgy | Noun |
| 粉微塵 | こなみじん | in very small pieces | Noun |
| 粉飾 | ふんしょく | embellishment (e.g. of a story), ornamentation, decoration | Noun, Suru verb |
| 粉薬 | こなぐすり | powdered medicine, powder | Noun |
| 粉々になる | こなごなになる | to break into fragments, to go to pieces | Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.), Godan verb with 'ru' ending |