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
部首
bùshǒu
radical of a Chinese character
Characters in this word
首 shǒu
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 首 — chief, head, leader
- Made of
- 丷 horns 自 self
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 学习篆书之前，先弄清每个汉字的部首和结构会更有效。 Xuéxí zhuànshū zhīqián, xiān nòngqīng měi ge Hànzì de bùshǒu hé jiégòu huì gèng yǒuxiào. Before studying seal script, it is more effective to understand each character's radical and structure first.
- 查字典的时候，你可以先找部首。 Chá zìdiǎn de shíhou, nǐ kěyǐ xiān zhǎo bùshǒu. When you look something up in a dictionary, you can find the radical first.
- 河字的部首是三点水，表示和水有关。 Hé zì de bùshǒu shì sāndiǎnshuǐ, biǎoshì hé shuǐ yǒuguān. The radical of the character for river is the three-dot water, showing a link with water.
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