部首

Chinese

		ministry; department; section ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; (a measure word); (a measure word for works of literature, films, machines, etc.)	head; chief; first (occasion) head; chief; first (occasion); first (thing); measure word for poems
simp. and trad. (部首)		部	首

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bùshǒu

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ ㄕㄡˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bou⁶ sau²
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pō͘-siú / pǒ͘-siú

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bou⁶ siu²

• Wu (Northern, Wugniu): ⁶bu-seu₅ / ²bu₆-seu₃

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bùshǒu
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ ㄕㄡˇ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bùshǒu
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴-shou³
    • Yale: bù-shǒu
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buhshoou
    • Palladius: бушоу (bušou)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹ ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bou⁶ sau²
    • Yale: bouh sáu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bou⁶ sau²
    • Guangdong Romanization: bou⁶ seo²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou̯²² sɐu̯³⁵/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 捕手 部首

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Zhangzhou, General Taiwanese)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pō͘-siú
    • Tâi-lô: pōo-siú
    • Phofsit Daibuun: poxsiuo
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pɔ²²⁻²¹ siu⁵³/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /pɔ³³⁻²¹ siu⁴¹/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /pɔ³³⁻¹¹ siu⁵³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pǒ͘-siú
    • Tâi-lô: pǒo-siú
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔ²² siu⁵⁵⁴/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bou⁶ siu²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pŏu siú
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou³⁵⁻¹¹ siu⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Northern: Shanghai)
    • Wugniu: ⁶bu-seu₅
    • MiniDict: bu^去 seu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³bu-seu₂
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bu²² sɤ⁴⁴/
  • (Northern: Suzhou)
    • Wugniu: ²bu₆-seu₃
    • MiniDict: bu^去 seu^上
    • Sinological IPA (Suzhou): /bu²² søy³³/

Noun

部首

1. radical (of a Chinese character, as used in a traditional Chinese dictionary); indexing component

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (部首):

• → Japanese: 部首(ぶしゅ) (bushu)
• → Korean: 부수(部首) (busu)
• → Vietnamese: bộ thủ (部首)

See also

• 偏旁 (piānpáng, “component of Chinese characters”)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
部	首
ぶ Grade: 3	しゅ Grade: 2
goon

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 部首 (MC buX syuwX). First mentioned in Chinese in the Shūowén Jiězì of roughly 100 CE.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bɯ̟ɕɨ]
• (Tokyo) ぶしゅ [búꜜshù] (Atamadaka – [1])

Noun

部(ぶ)首(しゅ) • (bushu) 

1. the categorizing element of a kanji character, used for indexing in a character dictionary: a kanji radical

   Coordinate terms: 偏旁 (henbō, literally “left and right”), 偏旁冠脚 (henbō kankyaku, literally “left, right, crown (top), and legs (bottom)”)

   部首(ぶしゅ)は漢字(かんじ)を構成(こうせい)する主(おも)な要素(ようそ)のひとつです。

   Bushu wa kanji o kōsei suru omo na yōso no hitotsu desu.

   Radicals are one of the important elements composing Chinese characters.

Usage notes

Every Chinese character or kanji has exactly one radical, used to index this character in a dictionary, which is also potentially the entire character (such as for 人 or 口 or 心). Most kanji are composed of more than just the radical, and include other elements. For instance, the character 付 is composed of two elements, the radical portion 亻 and the non-radical portion 寸. The term 部首 (bushu) or "radical" for this 付 kanji refers specifically to the 亻 portion. Non-radical portions of a kanji may be called "elements" or "components", or even just colloquially "parts" or "pieces".

The term 偏旁 (henbō, literally “left and right”) refers to the left and right portions of a character. For more complicated kanji that also have distinct components on the top and / or the bottom of the character, the term 偏旁冠脚 (henbō kankyaku, literally “left, right, crown (top), and legs (bottom)”) may be used instead to refer to the character components.

See also

• 偏(へん) (hen, “the left-hand component of a kanji character”)
• 旁(つくり) (tsukuri, “the right-hand component of a kanji character”)
• 冠(かんむり) (kanmuri, “the crown: the top component of a kanji character”)
• 脚(あし) (ashi, “the feet or legs: the bottom component of a kanji character”)

References

• “部首”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[3] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026
• Ineko Kondō, Fumi Takano, Mary E. Althaus, et al. (2002), Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, third edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja in this term
部	首

Noun

部首 • (busu) (hangeul 부수)

1. hanja form^? of 부수 (“hanja radical”)

Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
部	首

Noun

部首

1. chữ Hán form of bộ thủ (“Hán Nôm radical”)