人事部门 (rén shì bù mén) — personnel office; human resources department

Definition

noun

personnel officehuman resources department

Measure word · 个

人事部门。
Qǐng bǎ zhè fèn jiǎn lì jiāo gěi rén shì bù mén.
Please hand this résumé to HR.
人事部门。
rén shì bù mén Zhèng zài zhāo pìn sān míng xīn yuán gōng.
The personnel department is recruiting three new employees.
，人事部门。
Guān yú qǐng jià de shì qing, nǐ dé qù rén shì bù mén wèn yí xià.
Regarding taking leave, you need to go ask the HR department.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

人事personnel affairs

偏正Modifier + head

部门department

联合Side by side

The 人事 and 部门 together mean a department for personnel affairs.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The shape of 人 shows a side view of a standing person, with an arm and a leg.

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

In 事, 又 is a hand and 中 is a flagpole with a drum; holding a flag in hand depicts performing a job.

Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú

Sound part声符shēngfú

咅

咅pǒu部bù

The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

部 pairs 咅, which gives the sound, with 邑. It originally named a place in today's Gansu.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 門; 门 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 門 pictures a gate as two door shapes side by side; the simplified 门 is a later shorthand.