扑 - Dong Chinese dictionary

This information for this character has not been manually reviewed and may not be accurate.

pū

pound

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 卜 represents the sound. Simplified form of 撲.

Components

扌 Meaning component

shou, shǒu

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

卜 Sound component

bo, bǔ

fortune telling

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Traditional script

Modern

Simplified script

Modern

Definitions

pū

pound, beat, strike; attack; to throw oneself at; to pounce on; to devote one's energies; to flap; to flutter; to dab; to pat; to bend over

Most common words with 扑

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 9.5467% of movies

1971st most common character in movies

1509th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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