Illustration: Inside a small Japanese home-appliance company's office, a new employee delivers a desk fan to the wrong team. Around one shared table, accounting staff handle calculators, receipt rolls, and stacks of payment envelopes, looking politely puzzled by the fan's exposed wiring.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

部ぶ署しょ

busho

department, section

Example sentences

  1. どちらの部署ぶしょなんですか？

    What department are you in?

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  2. その資料しりょうはこの部署ぶしょにはありません。

    Our department doesn’t have that information.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 彼女かのじょはうちの部署ぶしょに来きた久々ひさびさの大型新人おおがたしんじんです。

    This is the first time in a while that someone we had such high hopes for came to our department.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 部署

  • 部section; bureauOnブ
  • 署signature; govt officeOnショ

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