Chinese Character Wiki
部

bù

part

Original meaning: 

place in Gansu province

Phonosemantic compound. ⻏ represents the meaning and 咅 represents the sound.

Components
⻏ meaning component

⻏  Meaning component

yì

  

city

⻏ is a component form of 邑.

咅 sound component

咅  Sound component

pǒu

  

to spit out

Evolution

部 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
部 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
部 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

部  

bù

part, division, section; ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc

Most common words with 部
Freq.
Word
Meaning

部

ministry

部分

part

部门

department

全部

whole

俱乐部

club (the organisation or its premises) (loanword)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ˤ(r)oʔ

buwX

bù

lead (v.), govern


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 92.2954% of movies

235th most common character in movies

84th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+90E8

Shuowen

“部，天水狄部。从邑，咅聲。”


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