Jisho

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15 strokes
Radical:
meat 肉 (⺼)
Parts:
knee, lap
Kun:
ひざ
On:
シツ
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
2320 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 膝窩静脈 【シツカジョウミャク】 popliteal vein
  • 膝窩動脈 【シツカドウミャク】 popliteal artery

Kun reading compounds

  • 膝 【ひざ】 knee, lap, knee and thigh (while sitting)
  • 跪く 【ひざまずく】 to kneel (in respect), to genuflect
  • 両膝 【りょうひざ】 both knees
  • 突き膝 【つきひざ】 knee touch down, posture with knees and toes on the floor

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
xi1
Korean:
seul

Spanish

  • rodilla

Portuguese

French

3814 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2281 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1917 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1359 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
985 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
29837 Morohashi
4868 New Nelson (John Haig)
2461 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1002 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
3942 2001 Kanji
4b11.4 The Kanji Dictionary
1-4-11 SKIP code
7423.2 Four corner code
1-41-08 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
819d Unicode hex code

11 strokes (also 10)
Radical:
town (阝 right) 邑 (阝)
Parts:
Variants:
section, bureau, dept, class, copy, part, portion, counter for copies of a newspaper or magazine
Kun:
-べ
On:
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 3
JLPT level N3
36 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 部 【ブ】 department (in an organization, company, etc.), division, bureau, faculty, club (at a school, university, etc.), team, part, portion, region, area, category, class, division, section, heading, counter for copies of a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.
  • 部位 【ブイ】 part (esp. of the body), region, site, cut (of meat)
  • 情報部 【ジョウホウブ】 information bureau, intelligence department
  • 首脳部 【シュノウブ】 executives, top management, governing body

Readings

Japanese names:
とり、 ふ、 ぺ、 ま
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
bu4
Korean:
bu

Spanish

  • sección
  • departamento
  • parte
  • copia

Portuguese

  • seção
  • biro
  • departamento
  • classe
  • cópia
  • parte
  • porção
  • sufixo para contagem de jornais ou revistas

French

  • partie
  • bureau
  • service
  • classe
  • copie
  • section
  • portion
  • compteur de copies (presse)
504 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
407 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
384 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
37 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4767 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
282 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
969 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1418 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.5 Japanese for Busy People
86 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
86 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
53 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
762 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
2111 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1099 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1498 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1862 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
39460 Morohashi
1676 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6146 New Nelson (John Haig)
1845 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1988 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
52 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
386 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
444 2001 Kanji
2d8.15 The Kanji Dictionary
1-8-3 SKIP code
1-8-2 SKIP code
0762.7 Four corner code
1-41-84 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
90e8 Unicode hex code