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部首

bù shǒu

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

部首 (bù shǒu) means "radical of a Chinese character". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 部首 means

1. radical of a Chinese character

The characters in 部首

• 部bùministry; department; section
• 首shǒuhead; chief; first (occasion, thing etc)

Example sentences

• “好”的部首是女。
  The radical in the Chinese character for "good" is the character for "woman".

Words starting with 部首

• 部首编排法bù shǒu biān pái fǎdictionary arrangement of Chinese characters under radicals

Go deeper

• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bù shǒu correctly.
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