部门

Character by character

• 部bù10 strokesHSK 2part, division, section
• 门mén3 strokesHSK 1 traditional 門gate, door, entrance, opening

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Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 部门. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 门ménHSK 1

  gate; door; gateway; doorway; opening; valve; switch; way to do something; knack; family; house; (religious) sect; school (of thought); class; category; phylum or division (taxonomy); classifier for large guns; classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology; (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

• 部bùHSK 3

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

• 部分bù fenHSK 2

  part; share; section; piece

• 全部quán bùHSK 2

  whole; all

• 俱乐部jù lè bùHSK 5

  club (the organisation or its premises) (loanword)

• 大部分dà bù fenHSK 2

  in large part; the greater part; the majority

• 内部nèi bùHSK 4

  interior; inside (part, section); internal

• 部队bù duìHSK 6

  army; armed forces; troops; force; unit

• 专门zhuān ménHSK 3

  specialist; specialized; customized

• 门口mén kǒuHSK 1

  doorway; gate

• 出门chū ménHSK 2

  to go out; to leave home; to go on a journey; away from home; (of a woman) to get married

• 西部xī bùHSK 3

  western part

• 部长bù zhǎngHSK 3

  head of a (government etc) department; section chief; section head; secretary; minister

• 大门dà ménHSK 2

  entrance; door; gate; large and influential family

• 总部zǒng bùHSK 6

  general headquarters

• 头部tóu bùHSK 7

  head

• 一部分yī bù fenHSK 2

  portion; part of; subset

• 部位bù wèiHSK 5

  part (esp. of the body, but also of a vegetable (e.g. the root), or a garment (e.g. the sleeve) etc)

• 南部nán bùHSK 3

  southern part

• 东部dōng bùHSK 3

  the east; eastern part

• 胸部xiōng bùHSK 4

  chest; bosom

• 门票mén piàoHSK 1

  ticket (for theater, cinema etc)

• 北部běi bùHSK 3

  northern part

• 上门shàng ménHSK 4

  to drop in; to visit; to lock a door; (of a shop) to close; to go and live with one's wife's family, in effect becoming a member of her family