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
部队
bùduì
troops, army
Characters in this word
队 duì
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 阝 — place, town, city
- Made of
- 阝 place, town, city 人 man, person
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 救灾部队抵达后，受困群众终于得到及时转移。 Jiùzāi bùduì dǐdá hòu, shòukùn qúnzhòng zhōngyú dédào jíshí zhuǎnyí. After the disaster-relief troops arrived, the trapped people were finally evacuated in time.
- 他在部队里生活了五年，养成了早起的习惯。 Tā zài bùduì lǐ shēnghuó le wǔ nián, yǎngchéng le zǎoqǐ de xíguàn. He spent five years in the army and got into the habit of rising early.
- 部队的战士们整齐地走过广场。 Bùduì de zhànshìmen zhěngqí de zǒuguò guǎngchǎng. The soldiers of the unit walked across the square in neat formation.
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
- 部门 bùmén department
- 部长 bùzhǎng minister
- 东部 dōngbù eastern part
- 南部 nánbù southern part
- 西部 xībù western part
- 中部 zhōngbù central part