部

See also 卩

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 咅 + semantic 阝

Han character

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

1. part, division, section

Descendants

• へ
• ヘ

References

• 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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

部 (Yale bou6)

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Japanese

Kanji

部 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ぶ (bu), ほ (ho), ほう (hō)
• Kun: わける (wakeru), すべる (suberu), つかさ (tsukasa), へ (he-), べ (-be)

Compounds

• 部門
• 部屋
• 細部 (さいぶ, saibu, “details, minor”)
• 全部 ("ぜんぶ, zenbu, “everything, all”)

Counter

部 (hiragana ぶ, romaji bu)

1. copies of a newspaper or magazine

Noun

部 (hiragana ぶ, romaji bu)

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

Suffix

部 (hiragana ぶ, romaji -bu)

1. division, bureau
2. club
3. category

Usage notes

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”).

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Hanzi

部 (pinyin bù (bu4), Wade-Giles pu⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

部 (bộ, bõ)