ぶ
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. department (in an organization, company, etc.); division; bureau; faculty
above 課, below 局
But we in the design department should have checked as well.
2. club (at a school, university, etc.); team
Yes, I have completely forgotten about things like club activities.
3. part; portion; region; area
A deep male voice echoed throughout the entire space of the central area.
4. category; class; division; section; heading
Counter
5. counter for copies of a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.
How many copies did it sell last year?
Pitch accent
ぶ
ぶ
Used in vocabulary (335 in total)
all; entire; whole; altogether
subordinate person
club budget; club expense
thick; bulky; massive; heavy
part (esp. of the body); region; site; cut (of meat)
section meeting; division (of a larger organisation); department; section
radical (of a kanji character)
thick; bulky; massive; heavy
seat (of chair, bench, etc.); seat base
the staff; inside the department
top part; surface
secret place; genitals
front part; fore; front
portion; section; part
one part; one portion; one section; one copy (of a book); (one) complete set (of books)
head (chief, director) of a section or department; head of a (school) club; head of a (school) team
one's post; one's station; department; bureau; section
staff; member (club, society, etc.)
tail; caudal
number of copies; circulation
lengthy (of a book, etc.); voluminous; most (e.g. most part); greater; fairly
club activities; extracurricular activities
clubroom
parts; accessories; components
urban areas
people belonging to a hereditary occupation group (Yamato period)
groin; inguinal region
diplomatic mission
beginning part; initial part; nose cone (missile)
outside (an organization, department, etc.)
real part (of complex number)
headquarters
tribe
base; foundation
Ministry of Rites (Tang dynasty China)
phase; aspect; field; side
drama club (e.g. at school); dramatic society
literary club (e.g. at school); literary section (e.g. newspaper)
club activities; extracurricular activities
concert band (as a school activity); wind ensemble
(Meiji era) official responsible for court ceremonies
pubic region; private parts; genital area
two parts; two copies; the second part
center; centre; middle; Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures)
three parts; three copies
thick; bulky; massive; heavy
interior; inside; internal
headquarters; head office; main office
division (of a larger group); branch; field; class (subclass); group; category
(the) executive; administration; leadership
top part of the head; crown; parietal region
faculty of medicine; college of medicine; department of medicine; school of medicine; medical school
school store; co-op; purchasing department
department; bureau; section; part
changing post (department, club, etc.)
faculty of education
kanji "shell" radical (154)
pars triangularis; triangular area; triangular part of inferior frontal gyrus
leaving a school club (upon graduation)
force; unit; corps; squad; troops; party
outside (e.g. of a building); exterior; outside (of a group, company, etc.); outside world
back of head
branch; branch office; subdivision
top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile
southern part; the south (of a region)
(lower) abdomen; hypogastrium; genitals; private parts
eastern part; the east (of a region)
central part; heart (of a city, etc.)
class; heading; group; category
baseball club (at a university, corporation, etc.); baseball team
senior high school (esp. the senior high school section of a school that also encompasses other grades)
editorial department
middle school (esp. the middle school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); junior high school
details; particulars
military authorities; army circles
track and field club
western part; the west (of a region); the West (United States)
sports club (e.g. at school); sports department (e.g. in a newspaper)
soccer club (at a school); football club
basketball club
commanding officer
deepest part; deepest portion; depths (of the ocean etc.); innermost
information bureau; intelligence department
centre; center; middle
research division; research club (e.g. at school, university)
lower part; substructure; subordinate (office); good and faithful servant
dark side (of nature, town, etc.)
club disbandment
faculty (of a university); school; college; department
all parts; various parts; every department
buttocks
Ministry of War (Tang dynasty China)
urban area; urban district
leg; leg portion; foot (of a page)
pupils who are not members of any school club; (lit.) go-home club
sales department
Ministry of Revenue (Tang dynasty China)
part; section; affected part (of the body); private parts; genitals
region of the heart; central part; heart (e.g. of a city); center
development department
personnel department
second division; secondary division
security department (of a police force); security bureau; security division
commanding officer
club journal; club notebook
girls' or women's division or section
Ministry of Justice (in Tang dynasty China)
faculty of letters; college of letters; school of humanities
(command) headquarters
executives; top management; governing body
mountainous region
division (of company); operations department
northwestern part; the northwest
faculty of law; school of law; college of law
general affairs department (bureau); executive section
base; bottom
southwestern part; the southwest
femoral region; thigh area
northeastern part; the northeast
coastal region; coastal area; coastline
accounting department
faculty of engineering; school of engineering; college of engineering; department of engineering
rugby club
research division; inquiry section
inner-city area; city center
safety department; security department
xylem; wooden part (of)
inland districts; inland areas
southeastern part; the southeast
planning department
public relations section or department
six copies; Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
department of economics; faculty of economics
Public Safety Bureau (of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department); Ministry of Public Security (China)
table tennis club; ping-pong club
mountaineering club; mountain area
news department
boxing club
Naval General Staff
local news section; the city desk
Ministry of Works (Tang dynasty China)
special investigation department
leadership
advertising department; public relations department; PR department
component; part; material; member
faculty of science; school of science; college of science
badminton club
torso; body; trunk
food (on a table; esp. a small Japanese table); dinner; cover (in a restaurant); cook; chef; person who prepares food
lengthy (of a book, etc.); voluminous; most (e.g. most part); greater; fairly
daytime; noon period of the day; matinee
legal office; law office; legal department
sales department
rural district; farming area
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (1871-2001)
lowest part; bottom (or footer) of a page, computer screen, on-screen window, etc.
faculty of agriculture; school of agriculture; department of agriculture
school of pharmacy; department of pharmaceutical sciences
police affairs department; police headquarters department which handles human resources, finance, etc.
front; forehead
perineal region
introduction; introductory part; lead
basketball club
badminton club
cervix; uterine cervix; cervix uteri
publishing department
promotion department; development department; enhancement department
edible part
two parts; both parts; both realms (i.e. the Diamond Realm and the Womb Realm); Shinto-Buddhist amalgamation
extrusion; protrusion; bulge; projecting part; overhang
the side
operational unit; supervisory department; control division
school of commerce; faculty of commerce
department and section managers
commissariat
main part; key part; head (of a phrase)
bass register
Ministry of Religious Education (1872-1877)
periphery; margin; rim; penumbra
ministry in charge of military affairs (ritsuryō period); military command body (early Meiji period)
department of veterinary medicine; school of veterinary medicine
military government
treble; high singing voice
underlined part
external genitalia (esp. female); vulva
faculty of arts; school of arts
middle section (of a composition in ternary form); trio
forehead; frontal
general education division (at Japanese universities; phased out after the 1991 reforms); department of general eduction; college of general education
general affairs department (e.g. in a company); operations department
foot region
elementary school (esp. the elementary school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); primary school
liaison department; public relations department
night-school session; evening classes
tetralogy
tetralogy
imaginary part (of complex number)
main part; principal part; subject (noun phrase)
controller
oral region; regio oralis; kanji radical for "mouth"
copyreading department
early Buddhist schools; Nikaya Buddhism
the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)
daytime session (of a school, university, etc.)
rural districts; counties
four-part harmony
island area; insular region
debating club
Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
part number; PN
exposition
remainder; remnant; the rest; copies (still) in stock
Ministry of Popular Affairs (1869-1871); Ministry of Popular Affairs (under the ritsuryō system)
faculty of humanities; school of humanities
Sthaviravada (early Buddhist movement)
bend; flexure; bight
soft tissue
ileocecum
Music Department (part of the Board of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency)
lower brain; base of the brain
out-of-store sales department
faculty of political science and economics; school of political science and economics
accompaniment
Mahasamghika (early Buddhist movement)
five fundamental texts of Ise Shinto
Inspectorate General of Military Training (1898-1945)
photosensor (e.g. of a remote control); optical receiver
punch station
gastric region
bass (line, part)
sorting
corpus uteri; uterine body; body of the uterus
faculty of dentistry; school of dentistry; dental school
ward area (of Tokyo); 23 special wards
Ministry of State Security (China)
(of a book, etc.) short
assigning to sections (departments, divisions, etc.); subordinate
foreign news desk
controlling element; actuator; operating portion
body part
weld; weld zone; welded part
nape (of the neck); nucha; nuchal region; poll (esp. of horses)
muzzle (of a dog, cat, etc.)
predicate
transmitter
variant part
woody parts (of a plant); xylem
miscellany
elbow; elbow-shaped bend
collating (printing)
faculty of informatics; school of informatics
part number; PN
legislature; legislative body
quartet; quartette; piece in four parts or voices
cardiac region (of the stomach)
classification
partial eclipse
processor; handler
phloem
address field; address part
neuromuscular junction; myoneural junction
election department
faculty of fisheries; faculty of fishery science
faculty of integrated arts and sciences; school of integrated arts and sciences
palm (of the hand); palmar area; metacarpal (bone); metacarpus
Ministry of Science and Technology (China)
mantissa; significand
exponent portion; characteristic (e.g. in floating-point representation)
mail-order department; branch store
Litigation Department (of the Ministry of Justice)
First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
suburban districts
storage unit; memory unit
four orders of Buddhist followers (monks, nuns, male lay devotees and female lay devotees)
path overhead section
user part
operation part
generic content portion description
read station
end of procedure division
initialization section
read station
content portion
division header
substring; subsequence
physical medium dependent
document class description
Voigt element (combination of spring and viscous damper)
meroblastic cleavage; partial cleavage
temporoparietal junction; TPJ
pulmonary apex region; apical pulmonary region
rotator interval; rotator cuff interval
junior college (attached to a university)
swimming club (at a university, corporation, etc.); swimming team
drive unit; drive section; drive
choir; singing club; chorus club
elementary school (esp. the elementary school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); primary school
criminal investigation department; criminal investigation bureau
Organized Crime Countermeasures Department (of the Japanese police); Organized Crime Department
culture club (e.g. at school)
plains area; flatland; plain
Kyoto University Faculty of Integrated Human Studies
Ministry of Civil Affairs (PRC)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs (China)
Ministry of National Defense (China)
Ministry of Education (China)
Ministry of Justice (China)
Ministry of Finance (China)
Ministry of Ecology and Environment (China)
Ministry of Water Resources (China)
Ministry of Commerce (China)
Ministry of Culture and Tourism (China)
Dīgha Nikaya; Collection of Long Discourses
Samyutta Nikaya; Connected Discourses; Kindred Sayings
Examples (43 in total)
I am in the broadcasting club!
I belong to the tennis club.
So the club is getting started, then.