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.

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

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

部

(Third grade 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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Korean

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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