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「もとから、わかれてできたもの。」

It's one of the meanings for the kanji 子 on my book. There are two examples
for this meaning: 子音 and 利子.

In kanji, it should be 「元から、分かれて出来た物。」. The first verb is from 分かれる, not the
potential form of 分かる.

"Something separeted (by itself?) and made (by who?) from (what?)."

I don't understand the explanation even with the examples.
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How should I translate もとから、わかれてできたもの?
分かれる and 出来る are both plain **intransitive** verbs, and the original sentence
has no passive voice at all. (分かれる happens to end with れる, but it's not a
passive marker but a part of the dictionary form of this verb.) However, you
are trying to use the English passive voice ("～ed by ～") to translate it.
Something like this is sometimes unavoidable, but in this case, it can make it
unnecessarily harder for you to make sense of the original sentence.

You can translate this sentence using English intransitive verbs like so:

> 元から、分かれて出来た物  
>  something that separated from its origin and (then) came into existence

This can be paraphrased like "something that came into existence after
separating from its origin". This 元 is a noun that roughly means _origin_ ,
_source_ , _root_ , _base_ , etc.

So this definition is basically saying the kanji 子 can refer to anything that
is _derivative_ , _subordinate_ or _subsidiary_. 利子 ("interest") refers to
money that derives from something. 子音 ("consonant") refers to a sound that can
attach to a 母音 ("vowel") but cannot stand alone (this is not true in English,
but it's true in the Japanese sound system).
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