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
部件
bùjiàn
component; part
Characters in this word
件 jiàn
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 亻 — man, person
- Made of
- 亻 man, person 牛 ox, cow, bull
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 维修人员确认核心部件受潮，整台仪器必须停用检修。 Wéixiū rényuán quèrèn héxīn bùjiàn shòucháo, zhěng tái yíqì bìxū tíngyòng jiǎnxiū. The maintenance staff confirmed that a core component had become damp, so the whole instrument must be taken out of service for inspection.
- 这台机器有很多小部件，拆开以后很难装回去。 Zhè tái jīqì yǒu hěn duō xiǎo bùjiàn, chāikāi yǐhòu hěn nán zhuāng huíqù. This machine has many small parts, and once taken apart it is hard to put back together.
- 汉字的部件可以帮助我们记住字的意思。 Hànzì de bùjiàn kěyǐ bāngzhù wǒmen jì zhù zì de yìsi. The components of Chinese characters can help us remember what a character means.
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