分類
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What it means
What does 分類 mean? It denotes the act of organizing items into groups based on shared characteristics, enabling systematic understanding, retrieval, and communication across disciplines such as science, information management, and everyday life.
Main meanings
- As a noun, the act or result of arranging items into categories based on attributes.
- In information and library science, a formal system or scheme for grouping items such as a taxonomy or classification.
- In everyday contexts, used for tasks like sorting waste into designated categories and organizing materials by type.
How to use it
Used in formal writing and everyday language to indicate the process of sorting into categories. In academic and professional contexts it appears in biology, information management, and cataloging, while in public life it appears on signage and policies about how to perform 分類 for waste, recyclable materials, and resources.
Variants and close terms
- 区分 (kubun) — division, categorization
- 分類化 (bunruika) — act of classifying
- 整理 (seiri) — organizing, sorting
Composition
- 分: to divide, part or portion; indicates separation into parts
- 類: kind, type, class; indicates grouping by similarity
Etymology
分 means divide or part; 類 means kind or type; together they form bunrui, the standard on'yomi reading for this compound in Japanese technical language.
Word class
noun (名詞)