Japanese word
部長
ぶちょう
In your course · Chapter 11
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- A2
- Frequency
- No. 1,134 in the course corpus
Meanings
- department head; boss
- head (chief, director) of a section or department
- head of a (school) club
- head of a (school) team
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 部
- On reading:
- ブ
- Kun reading:
- -べ
- Meanings:
- section, bureau, dept, class, copy, part, portion, counter for copies of a newspaper or magazine
- 長
- On reading:
- チョウ
- Kun reading:
- おさ、なが.い
- Meanings:
- long, leader, superior, senior
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))