手て分わけ

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Common wordJLPTN1Freq.FrequencyTop 100,000

手分けする · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

dividing up work; splitting into groups

Used when people divide tasks or split into teams to cover more ground, often for searching, cleaning, or handling a large job efficiently.

〈人ひと〉と手て分わけするto split up a task with someone
家か族ぞくと手て分わけして家いえ中じゅうを掃そう除じした。
My family and I split up the housework and cleaned the whole house.
手分てわけして〈場所くばしょ〉を探さがすto split into groups and search a place
みんなで手て分わけして公こう園えんを探さがした。
We split up into groups and searched the park.
手分てわけして〈事くじ〉を進すすめるto divide up and get a task done
手て分わけして準じゅん備びを進すすめれば、時じ間かん内ないに終おわるだろう。
If we split up the preparations, we should finish in time.

分ぶん担たんN1
分担 focuses on assigning shares of a task or responsibility, while 手分け emphasizes physically splitting people into groups to cover different areas.
分ぶん業ぎょうN1
分業 is a more formal, often economic term for dividing labor by specialization, whereas 手分け is the everyday word for splitting a group to get a job done faster.

手て配はいN2
手配 means arranging or making preparations (e.g. for an event or an arrest), while 手分け specifically means splitting a group of people into teams to share a task.

Compound of 手 (hand, person) and 分け (dividing), literally 'dividing hands/people'.