部

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ministry; department; section; part; division; troops; board; classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

阝 meaning “place” + 咅 sound ( pǒu )

Components 咅阝

department · Heisig RSH #1384

muzzle + city walls

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
一小部分	yī xiǎo bù fèn	a small part; a small section
大学部	dà xué bù	undergraduate course of study (Tw)
人事部门	rén shì bù mén	personnel office
国家安全部	Guó jiā ān quán bù	PRC Ministry of State Security
国安部	Guó ān bù	PRC Ministry of State Security; abbr. for 國家安全部\|国家安全部[Guo2 jia1 an1 quan2 bu4]
大部分	dà bù fen	the greater part; the majority; most; Taiwan pr. [da4bu4fen4]
一部分	yī bù fen	portion; part of; subset
中西部	zhōng xī bù	midwest
水利部	Shuǐ lì bù	Ministry of Water Resources (PRC)
人事部	rén shì bù	personnel office; human resources (HR)
门市部	mén shì bù	retail department; section of a retail store
部分工时	bù fen gōng shí	(Tw) part-time work
南部县	Nán bù Xiàn	Nanbu, a county in Nanchong City 南充市[Nan2 chong1 Shi4], Sichuan
公安部	Gōng ān bù	Ministry of Public Security
部长会	bù zhǎng huì	minister level conference
中南部	zhōng nán bù	south central region
西南部	xī nán bù	southwest part
外交部长	wài jiāo bù zhǎng	minister of foreign affairs
正外部性	zhèng wài bù xìng	positive influence, effect that people's doings or behavior have on others (society)
海关部门	hǎi guān bù mén	customs section

Characters sharing the sound component 咅 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
咅 sound part	pǒu	to spit out
培	péi	to cultivate, to farm; to shore up
陪	péi	to accompany, to be with, to keep company
剖	pōu	to bisect, to dissect, to slice
赔	péi	to compensate, to pay damages, to suffer a loss
菩	pú	herb, aromatic plant
焙	bèi	to bake, to roast; to dry by the fire
涪	fú	a river in Sichuan province
碚	bèi	suburb
瓿	bù	vase, pot, jar
掊	póu	to extract; to injure
踣	bó	stiff, corpse-like; rigor mortis
醅	pēi	unstrained spirits
锫	péi	berkelium