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部 U+90E8, 部 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-90E8 ← 郧 [U+90E7] CJK Unified Ideographs 郩 → [U+90E9]

Stroke order

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

• 蔀, 篰, 廍

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

• 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

simp. and trad.		部
2nd round simp.		𰆊
alternative forms		郶

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *boːʔ, *boːʔ, *boːʔ, *boːʔ): phonetic 咅 (OC *pʰɯʔ, *pʰl'oːs) + semantic 邑. It originally refers to a place in today's Gansu.

部

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

   教育部  ―  jiàoyùbù  ―  ministry of education

   中華人民共和國文化和旅遊部 [MSC, trad.]
   中华人民共和国文化和旅游部 [MSC, simp.]

   Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó wénhuà hé lǚyóu bù [Pinyin]

   Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China

   北京大學醫學部／北京大学医学部  ―  Běijīng Dàxué Yīxué Bù  ―  Peking University Health Science Center (literally, “Peking University Medical Studies Department”)

   某某超市防損部／某某超市防损部  ―  mǒumǒu chāoshì fángsǔn bù  ―  loss prevention department of an unnamed supermarket

3. (historical) An administrative division governed by a ministry.
4. 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.

• “部”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “部”, in 重編國語辭典修訂本 [Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary] (in Chinese), National Academy for Educational Research (Taiwan), 2021.
• “部”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2026.
• “部”, in 臺灣客語辭典 [Dictionary of Taiwan Hakka] (overall work in Mandarin and Hakka), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2022.
• 周存 [Zhōu, Cún], editor (2023), “部”, in 长汀话词典 CHANGTINGHUA CIDIAN [Dictionary of Changting Dialect] (overall work in Hakka and Mandarin), Guangzhou: 世界图书出版有限公司 [World Book Publishing Co., Ltd.], →ISBN, page 512.
• 李如龙 [Li, Ru-long]; 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu]; 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying]; 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019), “部”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 134.

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

• 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)、へ (he, 部)、べ (be, 部)
• Nanori: とり (tori)、ふ (fu)、ぺ (pe)、ま (ma)

Used as man'yōgana for へ (he).

• IPA^(key): [bɯ̟]
• (Tokyo) ぶ [búꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])

部(ぶ) • (-bu) 

1. copies of a newspaper or magazine

部(ぶ) • (bu) 

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

部(ぶ) • (-bu) 

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

   英会話(えいかいわ)部(ぶ)

   eikaiwabu

   English-speaking club

3. category

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”).

• 部(ぶ)活(かつ)動(どう) (bukatsudō)

• “^△部”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026

From Middle Chinese 部 (MC buX|buwX).

部 (eumhun 떼 부 (tte bu))

1. hanja form^? of 부 (“group, team”)

部 (eumhun 거느릴 부 (geoneuril bu))

1. hanja form^? of 부 (“lead, command”)

• 전부 (全部, jeonbu)
• 내부 (內部, naebu)
• 부수 (部首, busu)
• 부분 (部分, bubun)
• 부대 (部隊, budae)

部: Hán Nôm readings: bộ, bõ, bỏ

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

The Hán pronunciation is "bộ" :

1. part; division; section : 部分 bộ phận=part
2. ministry: 部長 bộ trưởng = minister
3. classifier

The Nôm pronunciations "bõ", "bỏ", "bọ" are derived from the Hán pronunciation "bộ"