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Mythic Mandarin

部 (bù): meaning and stroke order

部 (bù) means ministry, department, section, part, division, troops, board.

部

Simplified
部
Traditional
部 (same form)
Pinyin
bù

Stroke order of 部

部

  • bù ministry; department
  • 10 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 部

  1. bù
    • ministry
    • department
    • section
    • part
    • division
    • troops
    • board
    • classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc

Radical and structure

部
Radical 邑 (Kangxi radical 163) · 10 strokes · 咅 on the left, 阝 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 部

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).