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部

部

See also: 卩

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

Descendants

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 部

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, OC *boːʔ, *boːʔ, *boːʔ, *boːʔ) : phonetic 咅 ‎(OC *pʰɯʔ, *pʰl'oːs) + semantic 阝.

Pronunciation

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
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 部
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bù
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ buwX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]ˤ(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

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

Japanese

Kanji

部

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

Compounds

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. school club
    野球 (やきゅう)部 (ぶ)
    yakyūbu
    baseball club
    茶道 (さどう)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

Korean

Hanja

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

Definitions

  1. group, team

Compounds

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

Vietnamese

Han character

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