部

See also: 卩

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

Derived characters

• 𫨚, 廍, 篰, 蔀, 𫯵, 𩅇, 𠘁, 𭊘, 𡏿, 𣘙, 𧐾, 𩻗(𫚨)

Descendants

• へ (Hiragana character derived from Man'yōgana)
• ヘ (Katakana character derived from Man'yōgana)

References

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

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		部
alternative forms		⿹𠃌丨 (second-round simplified)

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (咅) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
蓓	*bɯːʔ, *bɯːʔ
倍	*bɯːʔ
菩	*bɯːʔ, *bɯʔ, *bɯː, *bɯːɡ
掊	*bruː, *poːʔ, *bɯ, *bɯ
剖	*pʰoːʔ, *pʰoʔ
婄	*pʰɯʔ, *bɯʔ, *bɯː
踣	*pʰɯs, *bɯːɡ
箁	*bɯ
咅	*pʰɯʔ, *pʰl'oːs
部	*boːʔ, *boːʔ, *boːʔ, *boːʔ
培	*boːʔ, *bɯː
犃	*boːʔ
瓿	*boːʔ, *bɯ, *bo
殕	*pɯʔ, *pʰoʔ, *qɯːɡ
醅	*pʰɯ, *pʰɯː
棓	*bɯ, *broːŋʔ, *bɯː
涪	*bɯ
賠	*bɯː
陪	*bɯː
毰	*bɯː
焙	*bɯːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *boːʔ, *boːʔ, *boːʔ, *boːʔ) : phonetic 咅 (OC *pʰɯʔ, *pʰl'oːs) + semantic 邑.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bù (bu⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bou⁶
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): phu
• Northern Min (KCR): bù
• Eastern Min (BUC): buô
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): pǒ͘ / pō͘ / phǒ / phō

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bou⁶

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶bu

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bù
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bù
    • Wade–Giles: pu⁴
    • Yale: bù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: buh
    • Palladius: бу (bu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: bou⁶
    • Yale: bouh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bou⁶
    • Guangdong Romanization: bou⁶
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou̯²²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phu
    • Hakka Romanization System: pu
    • Hagfa Pinyim: pu⁴
    • Sinological IPA: /pʰu⁵⁵/
• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: bù
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pu⁴²/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: buô
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /puɔ²⁴²/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pǒ͘
    • Tâi-lô: pǒo
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pɔ²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pō͘
    • Tâi-lô: pōo
    • Phofsit Daibuun: po
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pɔ²²/
    • IPA (Taipei, Kaohsiung): /pɔ³³/
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phǒ
    • Tâi-lô: phǒ
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰo²²/
  • (Hokkien: General Taiwanese, Xiamen, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phō
    • Tâi-lô: phō
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phoi
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pʰɤ³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰo²²/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pʰo³³/

Note:

• pǒ͘/pō͘ - literary;
• phǒ/phō - vernacular.

• (Teochew)
  • Peng'im: bou⁶
  • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: pŏu
  • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pou³⁵/
• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶bu
    • MiniDict: bu^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³bu
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /bu²³/

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• Middle Chinese: buX, buwX

Rime
Character	部	部
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	並 (3)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	裴古切	蒲口切
Baxter	buX	buwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/buoX/	/bəuX/
Pan Wuyun	/buoX/	/bəuX/
Shao Rongfen	/boX/	/bəuX/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bɔX/	/bəwX/
Li Rong	/boX/	/buX/
Wang Li	/buX/	/bəuX/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱuoX/	/bʱə̯uX/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bù	bòu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	bou6	bau6

• Old Chinese

  (Baxter–Sagart): /*[b]ˤ(r)oʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*boːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	部
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	bù
Middle Chinese	‹ buwX ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˁ(r)oʔ/
English	lead (v.), govern
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	部	部	部	部
Reading #	1/4	2/4	3/4	4/4
No.	1050	1055	9847	9862
Phonetic component	部	部	咅	咅
Rime group	侯	侯	侯	侯
Rime subdivision	0	0	0	0
Corresponding MC rime	簿	部	部	簿
Old Chinese	/*boːʔ/	/*boːʔ/	/*boːʔ/	/*boːʔ/
Notes		部婁=培塿

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 部

1. part; division; section
2. department; ministry

   教育部  ―  jiàoyùbù  ―  ministry of education

3. Classifier for works of literature, films, machines (cars, telephones...), etc. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

   我想去看一部電影。 [MSC, trad.]
   我想去看一部电影。 [MSC, simp.]

   Wǒ xiǎng qù kàn yī bù diànyǐng. [Pinyin]

   I want to see a movie.

Compounds

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Kanji

部

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: ぶ (bu, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: ほ (ho); ほう (hō)
• Kan’yō-on: ふ (fu)
• Kun: わける (wakeru, 部ける); すべる (suberu, 部べる); つかさ (tsukasa, 部); へ (he, 部); べ (be, 部)
• Nanori: とり (tori); ふ (fu); ぺ (pe); ま (ma)

Compounds

• 部(ぶ)長(ちょう) (buchō): division head
• 部(ぶ)門(もん) (bumon): division, group, branch
• 部屋(へや) (heya): room of a house or hotel, chamber, apartment, flat
• 細(さい)部(ぶ) (saibu): details, minor
• 全(ぜん)部(ぶ) (zenbu): everything, all
• 部(ぶ)活(かつ)動(どう) (bukatsudō): extracurricular activities; club activities; school club
• 内(ない)部(ぶ) (naibu): interior, the inside, the internal part
• 外(がい)部(ぶ) (gaibu): exterior, the outside, the external part

Counter

部(ぶ) or 部(counter) • (bu or counter) [[Category:Japanese
|ふ']]

1. copies of a newspaper or magazine

Noun

部(ぶ) • (bu) 

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

Suffix

部(ぶ) or 部(suffix) • (bu or suffix) [[Category:Japanese
|ふ']]

1. division, bureau
2. school club

   野(や)球(きゅう)部(ぶ)

   yakyūbu

   baseball club

   茶(さ)道(どう)部(ぶ)

   sadōbu

   tea ceremony club

3. category

Usage notes

This is a level higher than -課 (-ka, “department”), since for example 部長 (buchō, “division head”) is the boss of a 課長 (kachō, “department head”).

See also

• 部(ぶ)活(かつ)動(どう) (bukatsudō)

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Hanja

部 • (bu) (hangeul 부)

1. group, team

Compounds

1. 全部 (전부)
2. 內部 (내부)
3. 部首 (부수)
4. 部分 (부분)
5. 部隊 (부대)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 部 (bộ, bõ, duyên)

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