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大部分 (だいぶぶん): most part, majority — Japanese vocabulary

大部分 is read だいぶぶん and means "most part, majority". JLPT N3 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

大部分

Reading
だいぶぶん · daibubun
Translation
most part, majority
Level
JLPT N3
Pitch accent
だいぶぶんが

Example

石炭は大部分が炭素から成っている。

せきたんはだいぶぶんがたんそからなっている。

Coal consists mostly of carbon.

Kanji in this word

  • 大 — large, big
  • 部 — part, section
  • 分 — minute, part

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