HSK 3.0 Level 4 · Numbers

部 bù “part” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 部 means

  1. part
  2. department
  3. (m.w. for films, books)
  4. ministry
  5. section
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • division
  • troops

How to say 部

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale部bù4th tone, falling

部 in a sentence

  1. 那部小说我看了三天。

    Nà bù xiǎoshuō wǒ kàn le sān tiān.

    It took me three days to read that novel.

    Sentence #10157004 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 那是我最喜欢的部分。

    Nà shì wǒ zuì xǐhuan de bùfen.

    That’s my favourite part.

    Sentence #6560618 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

  3. 谁负责销售部门？

    Shéi fùzé xiāoshòu bùmén?

    Who’s in charge of the sales department?

    Sentence #811030 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 部 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 部 (bù) with each of its parts in a different colour
部bùministry
  • 咅to spit out · pǒuSound part
  • 阝placeMeaning part

阝 hints at the meaning (place); 咅 (pǒu) hints at the sound. Compare it with bù.

How to write 部

部 10 strokes

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部 (bù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 部 (bù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 部

Words with 部

部分bùfen · part全部quánbù · whole部门bùmén · department内部nèibù · inside俱乐部jùlèbù · club (the organisation or its premises) (loanword)部位bùwèi · position部署bùshǔ · to deploy局部júbù · part

More words: Numbers & Measure Words

一半yībàn · half间jiān · (measure word for rooms)名míng · name封fēng · (m.w. for letters好多hǎoduō · a lot of斤jīn · jin (unit of weight

FAQs

部 (bù) means “part” or “department”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word.
Say it bù: bù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 部 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 部 from the suggestions. Typing bu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
部 is an HSK 3.0 Level 4 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 6 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.