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浦

pǔ

bank of river

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 甫 represents the sound.

Components
氵 meaning component

氵  Meaning component

shui, shuǐ

  

water

氵 is a component form of 水.

甫 sound component

甫  Sound component

fǔ

  

begin

Evolution

浦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
浦 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
浦 Seal script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
浦 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

浦  

pǔ

bank of river, shore; surname; river bank; shore; river drainage ditch (old)

浦  

Pǔ

surname Pu

Most common words with 浦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

浦

shore

利物浦

Liverpool (England)

浦东

Pudong, subprovincial district of Shanghai

飞利浦

Philips (company)

塞浦路斯

Cyprus

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

蒲

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰˤaʔ

phuX

pǔ

river bank


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.0823% of movies

2439th most common character in movies

2161st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Unicode

U+6D66

Shuowen

“浦，瀕也。从水，甫聲。”


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