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google search says ---- department, faculty, part, volume etc.

部:

Short for 部位 = "a part of the body"

or

Short for 部份 = "part, segment, section"

Other meanings derived by also adding other characters:

部門 = department, division, etc...

部落 = tribe

部落格 = weblog AKA blog

"....the symbol 部 near the radicals...."

部首 = a part of the head / body, literally. It is now used as a Chinese translation of "radicals" of the Chinese language, especially from English, where the word "radical" is from Latin radix meaning "root", it's logical to call it that: 部首 are the basic part of a character which is where today you might or might not get the meaning or phonology from, due to changes in phonology via inter-loans from different dialects during the 4 millennia of Chinese dynastic rule.

"radical" is known as “偏旁" or "部首” in Chinese, which can be shortened to "旁" and "部" respectively. The latter, being more formal than the first one, is used almost exclusively in the context of dictionary and I have never seen it used in a conversation.

In short, X部 = radical X (formal expression)

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it is "bu" it means a part, section. Some examples: nan bu 南部 nan south and bu = the southern part. 部分 bu fen again means a part a section。 部首 bu shou means the radicals by which characters are arranged in a traditional Chinese dictionary

部:

part;

section;

ministry;

department;

troops.

From MTC (Multi-language Translation Service) team.

Hope this helps!

Ahhh its big and scarry!

it means "Department"

i do not know...