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Vietnamese
Etymology
Sino-Vietnamese word from 分子, composed of 分 (“portion”) and 子 (“child; small thing”), from Japanese 分子 (bunshi), from Middle Chinese 分子 (bjunH tsiX, “part; division; component; member”, literally “portion child”).
燕周之分子也
"Yan is a part of Zhou" - Guliang Zhuan
The tone is slightly irregular, and a regular form would be *phận tử. For the tone difference between phần tử and phân tử, see phần. Doublet of phân tử. Cognate with Mandarin 分子 (fènzǐ) and Cantonese 分子 (fan6 zi2).
Pronunciation
Noun
phần tử
- (set theory) an element
tập hợp A có 2 phần tử- there are 2 elements in set A
- (politics, chiefly in compounds) an element
phần tử cực đoan- radical elements
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