# 部 — Part

Frequency rank 49 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

You will meet this constantly in published Japanese — newspapers, books, signs, and dates.

More common than 体 (Body), less common than 当 (Correct).

- On’yomi: ぶ
- Kun’yomi: —
- Radical: 邑 City (Kangxi 163)
- Frequency path: Level I of XX
- School grade: 3
- Strokes: 10

After a wrecking ball demolishes a house, one wallpapered interior wall remains standing among the rubble.

In words:

- 部屋 へや — room
- 部 ぶ — department;part;category;counter for copies of a newspaper or magazine
- 部長 ぶちょう — head of a section

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