部
Meaning
- ministry
- department
- section
Example sentence
你有多少部车？
How many cars do you have?
The character 部
部 is a part of a whole and the office that handles it: 部分 a part, 全部 all of it, 大部分 most, 部门 a department, 部长 the minister at its head. It counts films and phones too — 一部电影.
Words containing 部
- 部分 bù fen part; portion; piece
- 大部分 dà bù fen the greater part; the majority; most
- 全部 quán bù whole; all
- 一部分 yī bù fen portion
- 北部 běi bù northern part
- 部门 bù mén department
- 部长 bù zhǎng head of a (government etc) department
- 东部 dōng bù the east
- 南部 nán bù southern part
- 西部 xī bù western part
- 中部 zhōng bù middle part; central section; central region
- 内部 nèi bù interior
- 胸部 xiōng bù chest