pǔ
bank of river
Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 甫 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Seal script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 浦
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
shore | ||
Liverpool (England) | ||
Pudong, subprovincial district of Shanghai | ||
Philips (company) | ||
Cyprus |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
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。” |
Sources
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