Illustration: At a Japanese disaster-response staging area, a compact Self-Defense Forces unit unloads a rescue boat from its truck. The unit leader signals from beside the tailgate while pairs of uniformed personnel lift together, their matching helmets and equipment making their organization clear.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

部ぶ隊たい

butai

troops, military unit

Example sentences

部隊ぶたいは陣地じんちを守まもり続つづけた。
The troops maintained their ground.
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残存ざんそんの部隊ぶたいは撤退てったいした。
The rest of the forces withdrew from the battle field.
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彼かれらはレスキュー部隊ぶたいが来くるまで歌うたを歌うたい続つづけた。
They kept singing until a rescue team came.
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Kanji in 部隊

部section; bureauOnブ
隊regiment; partyOnタイ

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