部 bù
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 阝 — place, town, city
- Made of
- 咅 to spit out 阝 place, town, city
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
部门
bùmén
department
Characters in this word
门 mén
- Strokes
- 3
- Radical
- 门 — gate, door, entrance, opening
- How it's built
- Pictograph — a drawing of the thing
Example phrases
- 我在这个部门。 Wǒ zài zhè ge bù mén. I am in this department.
- 部门今天很忙。 Bù mén jīn tiān hěn máng. The department is busy today.
- 他换了部门。 Tā huàn le bù mén. He changed departments.
Related words
- 部分 bùfen part
- 大部分 dàbùfen most; the greater part
- 全部 quánbù all; completely
- 一部分 yíbùfen one part
- 北部 běibù northern part; the north
- 部 bù a measure word for films, books, and vehicles
- 部长 bùzhǎng minister
- 东部 dōngbù eastern part
- 南部 nánbù southern part
- 西部 xībù western part
- 中部 zhōngbù central part
- 内部 nèibù inside; internal part