俘
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to take prisoner; prisoner of war
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 人 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 俘
- Common rank
- #3,682
- Unicode
- U+4FD8
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 俘 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
亻 meaning “person” + 孚 sound ()
Components 亻 孚
How to remember it
captive · Heisig RSH #2432
人 person + fledglings
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 俘
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中子俘获 | neutron capture | |
| 战俘 | prisoner of war | |
| 伤俘 | wounded and captured | |
| 俘获 | to capture (enemy property or personnel); capture (physics: absorption of subatomic partic… | |
| 捕俘 | to capture enemy personnel (for intelligence purposes) | |
| 俘虏 | to take prisoner; a captive (usu. a prisoner of war) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 孚 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 孚 sound part | to brood over eggs; to have confidence | |
| 乳 | breast, nipples; milk; to suckle | |
| 浮 | to drift, to float; mobile, temporary, unstable; reckless | |
| 蜉 | wasp; mayfly; large ant | |
| 稃 | chaff, husk | |
| 莩 | culm, stem; the membrane lining a stem | |
| 殍 | to starve to death | |
| 脬 | bladder | |
| 桴 | beam, rafter | |
| 郛 | suburbs; city walls |