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Translingual [edit]

Stroke order
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Etymology [edit]

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic  + semantic 

Han character [edit]

(radical 163 +8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 卜口弓中 (YRNL), four-corner 07627, composition)

  1. part, division, section

Descendants [edit]

References [edit]

  • KangXi: page 1272, character 17
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 39460
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1771, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3780, character 9
  • Unihan data for U+90E8

Cantonese [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(Yale bou6)


Japanese [edit]

Kanji [edit]

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings [edit]

Compounds [edit]

Counter [edit]

(hiragana , romaji bu)

  1. copies of a newspaper or magazine

Noun [edit]

(hiragana , romaji bu)

  1. division, divide, a part
  2. section, bureau, department

Suffix [edit]

(hiragana , romaji -bu)

  1. division, bureau
  2. club
  3. category

Usage notes [edit]

This is a level higher than -課 (-か, -ka) (department), since for example 部長 (ぶちょう, buchō) (division head) is the boss of a 課長 (かちょう, kachō) (department head).


Korean [edit]

Hanja [edit]

(hangeul , revised bu, McCune-Reischauer pu, Yale pu)


Mandarin [edit]

Hanzi [edit]

(pinyin (bu4), Wade-Giles pu4)


Vietnamese [edit]

Han character [edit]

部 (bộ, )