ブ
Meanings
Noun
Suffix
1. department (in an organization, company, etc.); division; bureau; faculty
above 課, below 局
2. club (at a school, university, etc.); team
3. part; portion; region; area
4. category; class; division; section; heading
Counter
5. counter for copies of a newspaper, magazine, book, etc.
Alt. forms
Pitch accent
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Top 30600
Used in vocabulary (334 in total)
urban areas
front part; fore; front
two parts; two copies; the second part
radical (of a kanji character)
beginning part; initial part; nose cone (missile)
portion; section; part
staff; member (club, society, etc.)
thick; bulky; massive; heavy
seat (of chair, bench, etc.); seat base
subordinate person
all; entire; whole; altogether
southern part; the south (of a region)
dark side (of nature, town, etc.)
eastern part; the east (of a region)
lengthy (of a book, etc.); voluminous; most (e.g. most part); greater; fairly
club activities; extracurricular activities
base; foundation
parts; accessories; components
top part; surface
number of copies; circulation
interior; inside; internal
club budget; club expense
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (1871-2001)
head (chief, director) of a section or department; head of a (school) club; head of a (school) team
buttocks
faculty of letters; college of letters; school of humanities
clubroom
western part; the west (of a region); the West (United States)
(Meiji era) official responsible for court ceremonies
one part; one portion; one section; one copy (of a book); (one) complete set (of books)
drama club (e.g. at school); dramatic society
division (of a larger group); branch; field; class (subclass); group; category
baseball club (at a university, corporation, etc.); baseball team
class; heading; group; category
Ministry of War (Tang dynasty China)
section meeting; division (of a larger organisation); department; section
pupils who are not members of any school club; (lit.) go-home club
pubic region; private parts; genital area
center; centre; middle; Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures)
six copies; Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
people belonging to a hereditary occupation group (Yamato period)
part number; PN
force; unit; corps; squad; troops; party
headquarters; head office; main office
outside (e.g. of a building); exterior; outside (of a group, company, etc.); outside world
back of head
branch; branch office; subdivision
part (esp. of the body); region; site; cut (of meat)
top brass; upper echelon; higher-ups; top management; upper reaches; top of the pile
tribe
headquarters
one's post; one's station; department; bureau; section
(lower) abdomen; hypogastrium; genitals; private parts
central part; heart (of a city, etc.)
literary club (e.g. at school); literary section (e.g. newspaper)
club activities; extracurricular activities
secret place; genitals
senior high school (esp. the senior high school section of a school that also encompasses other grades)
middle school (esp. the middle school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); junior high school
editorial department
military authorities; army circles
track and field club
details; particulars
sports club (e.g. at school); sports department (e.g. in a newspaper)
soccer club (at a school); football club
basketball club
deepest part; deepest portion; depths (of the ocean etc.); innermost
information bureau; intelligence department
commanding officer
centre; center; middle
lower part; substructure; subordinate (office); good and faithful servant
research division; research club (e.g. at school, university)
(the) executive; administration; leadership
concert band (as a school activity); wind ensemble
top part of the head; crown; parietal region
faculty of medicine; college of medicine; department of medicine; school of medicine; medical school
club disbandment
faculty (of a university); school; college; department
all parts; various parts; every department
leg; leg portion; foot (of a page)
urban area; urban district
Ministry of Revenue (Tang dynasty China)
sales department
the staff; inside the department
school store; co-op; purchasing department
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
Ministry of Justice (in Tang dynasty China)
(command) headquarters
girls' or women's division or section
executives; top management; governing body
mountainous region
three parts; three copies
division (of company); operations department
faculty of law; school of law; college of law
general affairs department (bureau); executive section
northwestern part; the northwest
base; bottom
femoral region; thigh area
southwestern part; the southwest
coastal region; coastal area; coastline
accounting department
northeastern part; the northeast
faculty of engineering; school of engineering; college of engineering; department of engineering
rugby club
research division; inquiry section
inner-city area; city center
xylem; wooden part (of)
safety department; security department
inland districts; inland areas
planning department
public relations section or department
southeastern part; the southeast
tail; caudal
news department
department of economics; faculty of economics
mountaineering club; mountain area
table tennis club; ping-pong club
local news section; the city desk
Public Safety Bureau (of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department); Ministry of Public Security (China)
Naval General Staff
Ministry of Works (Tang dynasty China)
special investigation department
leadership
advertising department; public relations department; PR department
boxing club
component; part; material; member
faculty of science; school of science; college of science
department; bureau; section; part
groin; inguinal region
badminton club
torso; body; trunk
lengthy (of a book, etc.); voluminous; most (e.g. most part); greater; fairly
food (on a table; esp. a small Japanese table); dinner; cover (in a restaurant); cook; chef; person who prepares food
sales department
legal office; law office; legal department
daytime; noon period of the day; matinee
lowest part; bottom (or footer) of a page, computer screen, on-screen window, etc.
faculty of agriculture; school of agriculture; department of agriculture
changing post (department, club, etc.)
rural district; farming area
outside (an organization, department, etc.)
school of pharmacy; department of pharmaceutical sciences
police affairs department; police headquarters department which handles human resources, finance, etc.
phase; aspect; field; side
Ministry of Rites (Tang dynasty China)
faculty of education
front; forehead
introduction; introductory part; lead
basketball club
badminton club
perineal region
cervix; uterine cervix; cervix uteri
publishing department
promotion department; development department; enhancement department
extrusion; protrusion; bulge; projecting part; overhang
edible part
two parts; both parts; both realms (i.e. the Diamond Realm and the Womb Realm); Shinto-Buddhist amalgamation
operational unit; supervisory department; control division
school of commerce; faculty of commerce
the side
department and section managers
commissariat
main part; key part; head (of a phrase)
Ministry of Religious Education (1872-1877)
periphery; margin; rim; penumbra
bass register
department of veterinary medicine; school of veterinary medicine
diplomatic mission
ministry in charge of military affairs (ritsuryō period); military command body (early Meiji period)
military government
club journal; club notebook
underlined part
treble; high singing voice
external genitalia (esp. female); vulva
real part (of complex number)
faculty of arts; school of arts
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
thick; bulky; massive; heavy
elementary school (esp. the elementary school section of a school that also encompasses other grades); primary school
liaison department; public relations department
foot region
middle section (of a composition in ternary form); trio
night-school session; evening classes
imaginary part (of complex number)
tetralogy
tetralogy
the eight legions (devas, nagas, yaksas, gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kimnaras, mahoragas)
controller
main part; principal part; subject (noun phrase)
copyreading department
early Buddhist schools; Nikaya Buddhism
daytime session (of a school, university, etc.)
oral region; regio oralis; kanji radical for "mouth"
rural districts; counties
island area; insular region
Buddhist pilgrim (carrying 66 copies of the Lotus Sutra to be left at sites across Japan)
part number; PN
debating club
remainder; remnant; the rest; copies (still) in stock
faculty of humanities; school of humanities
exposition
Sthaviravada (early Buddhist movement)
ileocecum
Music Department (part of the Board of Ceremonies of the Imperial Household Agency)
bend; flexure; bight
soft tissue
lower brain; base of the brain
out-of-store sales department
faculty of political science and economics; school of political science and economics
accompaniment
four-part harmony
Mahasamghika (early Buddhist movement)
five fundamental texts of Ise Shinto
Inspectorate General of Military Training (1898-1945)
Ministry of Popular Affairs (under the ritsuryō system)
punch station
gastric region
photosensor (e.g. of a remote control); optical receiver
sorting
corpus uteri; uterine body; body of the uterus
faculty of dentistry; school of dentistry; dental school
ward area (of Tokyo); 23 special wards
assigning to sections (departments, divisions, etc.); subordinate
foreign news desk
body part
(of a book, etc.) short
weld; weld zone; welded part
muzzle (of a dog, cat, etc.)
predicate
controlling element; actuator; operating portion
transmitter
variant part
woody parts (of a plant); xylem
nape (of the neck); nucha; nuchal region; poll (esp. of horses)
Ministry of State Security (China)
miscellany
elbow; elbow-shaped bend
collating (printing)
faculty of informatics; school of informatics
legislature; legislative body
bass (line, part)
quartet; quartette; piece in four parts or voices
cardiac region (of the stomach)
classification
partial eclipse
processor; handler
phloem
address field; address part
kanji "shell" radical (154)
pars triangularis; triangular area; triangular part of inferior frontal gyrus
neuromuscular junction; myoneural junction
leaving a school club (upon graduation)
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
election department
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 (22 in total)
I belong to the tennis club.
Welcome to the home cooking club.
He belongs to the camera club.