部 (bou6 | bu4) : part; section; department; division; troops

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部

bou6

bu4

[1] [n] part; section; portion
[2] [n] department; division; ministry
[3] classifier for books, films, machines, etc
[4] [n] troops; forces; army

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Stroke count: 11

Level: 1

Radical: (#163)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

部

Don't confuse with:
陪

This word has been viewed 24063 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 13th Mar 2014 09:46

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全部 cyun4 bou6 quan2 bu4 = entire; all

部分 bou6 fan6 bu4 fen5 = section; part

部門 bou6 mun4 bu4 men2 = department

部首 bou6 sau2 bu4 shou3 = radical (of a Chinese character)

口部 hau2 bou6 kou3 bu4 = oral area

高級幹部 gou1 kap1 gon3 bou6 gao1 ji2 gan4 bu4 = senior cadre

門市部 mun4 si5 bou6 men2 shi4 bu4 = retail department; sales department

部份 bou6 fan6 bu4 fen5 = section; part

大部分 daai6 bou6 fan6 = a big part; mostly

司令部 si1 ling6 bou6 si1 ling4 bu4 = military headquarters; military upper command
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Showing 10 of 14 examples containing 部

部手提電話冇晒電。粵
The mobile phone is out of battery.

全部都唔識呀粵
I don't know anything.
[Lit. everything also not know.]

你把聖誕卡全部都寄出去了嗎？國
Have you sent all of your Christmas cards yet?

嗰部手提電話壞咗粵
That mobile phone is broken.
[As in malfunctioning rather than being physically smashed.]

頭先總部𠹭我，所以遲咗粵
Headquarters called me just now which is why I'm late.
[Lit. Just now headquarters call me, therefore late-already]

呢部機器好容易操作。粵
It's easy to operate this machine.
[Whilst the English version needs a dummy subject "it", the Chinese version needs no subject with "this machine" functioning as a topic of the sentence.]

當天全部都好！
That day, everything was good!

你講嗰啲嘢全部都九唔踏八。粵
Nothing you said made any sense.

部車撞上石壆粵
The car crashes over on the curb.

個肥仔出力噉𨅝住部三輪車粵
The fat guy is pedalling furiously on his tricycle.

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Decimal representation of this word: 部
Unicode code for this character: U+90e8 (off-site link)

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