Jisho

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10 strokes (also 9)
Radical:
town (阝 right) 邑 (阝)
Parts:
county, district
Kun:
こおり
On:
グン
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 4
JLPT level N1
965 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 郡 【グン】 district, county, district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryō period), commandery (in China)
  • 郡部 【グンブ】 rural districts, counties
  • 共産国家郡 【キョウサンコッカグン】 Communist bloc
  • 国郡 【コクグン】 provinces and districts

Kun reading compounds

  • 郡 【ぐん】 district, county, district (of 2-20 50-home neighbourhoods or townships, in the ritsuryō period), commandery (in China)
  • 郡司 【ぐんじ】 district governor (under the ritsuryō system)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jun4
Korean:
gun

Spanish

  • condado
  • distrito

Portuguese

  • condado
  • distrito
  • comarca

French

  • comté
  • arrondissement
384 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
491 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
467 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
797 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
4764 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
480 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1828 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
1146 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
193 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
193 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
552 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
758 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
1858 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
984 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1333 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1860 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
39436 Morohashi
1466 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
6143 New Nelson (John Haig)
1843 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1986 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
541 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3544 2001 Kanji
2d7.12 The Kanji Dictionary
1-7-3 SKIP code
1-7-2 SKIP code
1762.7 Four corner code
1-23-20 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
90e1 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