部落
bù luò
Pinyin

Definition

部落
 - 
bù luò
  1. tribe

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

俱乐部
jù lè bù
  1. 1 club (the organisation or its premises) (loanword)
  2. 2 classifier: 个 gè
全部
quán bù
  1. 1 whole
  2. 2 entire
  3. 3 complete
落
là
  1. 1 to leave out
  2. 2 to be missing
  3. 3 to leave behind or forget to bring
  4. 4 to lag or fall behind
角落
jiǎo luò
  1. 1 nook
  2. 2 corner
部
bù
  1. 1 ministry
  2. 2 department
  3. 3 section
  4. 4 part
  5. 5 division
  6. 6 troops
  7. 7 board
  8. 8 classifier for works of literature, films, machines etc

Idioms (20)

一落千丈
yī luò qiān zhàng
  1. 1 lit. to drop a thousand zhang in one fall (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. (of business, popularity etc) to suffer a sudden, devastating decline
  3. 3 to take a dive
七零八落
qī líng bā luò
  1. 1 (idiom) everything broken and in disorder
不见棺材不落泪
bù jiàn guān cai bù luò lèi
  1. 1 lit. not to shed a tear until one sees the coffin (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. refuse to be convinced until one is faced with grim reality
中箭落马
zhòng jiàn luò mǎ
  1. 1 lit. to be struck by an arrow and fall from one's horse
  2. 2 to suffer a serious setback (idiom)
光明磊落
guāng míng lěi luò
  1. 1 open and candid (idiom); straightforward and upright

Sample Sentences

书上记载说，古代人们为了祛除病疫，在每年的农历五月初五以龙舟竞渡的形式举行部落的图腾祭祀，人们把这一天定为端午节。
shū shàng jìzǎi shuō ，gǔdài rénmen wèile qūchú bìngyì ，zài měinián de nónglì wǔyuè chūwǔ yǐ Lóngzhōu jìngdù de xíngshì jǔxíng bùluò de túténg jìsì ，rénmen bǎ zhè yī tiān dìng wéi duānwǔjié 。
The books say that to ward off epidemics every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month people in ancient times would hold tribal totemic ceremonies in the form of racing in dragon boats, and people set this day as Duanwu Festival.
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部落格
bùluògé
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