Sentence #5144729 from Tatoeba · translation adapted
How 部门 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.
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.
门méngate; door; doorway; gateway; opening
门 is a single shape of 3 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.
Memory aidSimplified from 門, drawn from a gate with two doors.
How to write 部门
部 10 strokes · 门 3 strokes
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Stroke order chart for 部门 (bùmén). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.
部门 (bùmén) means “department” or “branch”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it bùmén: bù with a 4th tone, then mén with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 部门 is written 部門. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 个 (gè). For example, one department is 一个部门 (yí ge bùmén).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bumen with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 部门 from the suggestions. Typing bumen into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
部门 is an HSK 5 word in the 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.
部bù4th tone, falling
门mén2nd tone, rising
