Kanji1 / 11
部 kanji
section, bureau, dept, class, copy, part, portion, counter for copies of a newspaper or magazine
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ブ
Kun readings
-べ
Variant forms
郶Words with 部
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —回盲部ileocecum
- —第二部second division; secondary division
- —調査部research division; inquiry section
- —部単位collating (printing)
- —企画部planning department
- —部長付assistant (to general manager)
- —女子部girls' or women's division or section
- —本部長general manager; director-general
- —総支部election campaign office
- —紫式部Japanese beautyberry (Callicarpa japonica)
- —小部分small part (of the whole)
- —経理部accounting department
- —業務部general affairs department (e.g. in a company); operations department
- —大部隊battalion; large force
- —脳底部lower brain; base of the brain
- —上座部Sthaviravada (early Buddhist movement)
- —大衆部Mahasamghika (early Buddhist movement)
- —宣伝部advertising department; public relations department; PR department
- —外部性externalities
- —八部衆the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)