Kanji N3

部: section, bureau, dept

部 is a JLPT N3 kanji meaning section, bureau, dept, written with 11 strokes. It is read ブ (on), and has no common kun reading. Children in Japan learn it in grade 3. You will see it in 部長 (ぶちょう, head of a section or department) and 部分 (ぶぶん, portion).

部

Meanings

  • section
  • bureau
  • dept
  • class
  • copy
  • part
  • portion
  • counter for copies of a newspaper or magazine
Strokes11
JLPT levelN3
School gradeGrade 3
Frequency#36 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ブ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • -べ

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 部

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 部長ぶちょう

    head (chief, director) of a section or department

    JLPT N4
  • 部分ぶぶん

    portion; section; part

    JLPT N3
  • 部屋へや

    room; chamber

    JLPT N5
  • 全部ぜんぶ

    all; entire; whole; altogether

    JLPT N5
  • 大部分だいぶぶん

    most part; greater part; majority

    JLPT N3
  • 部門ぶもん

    division (of a larger group); branch; field

    JLPT N1
  • 本部ほんぶ

    headquarters; head office; main office

    JLPT N2
  • 学部がくぶ

    faculty (of a university); school; college

    JLPT N2

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