埔
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used in place names
10 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,280 U+57D4
How 埔 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
土 (semantic, “earth”) + 甫 (phonetic, fǔ)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 甫
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 甫 (fǔ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 甫 sound component | fǔ | to begin; man, father; great; a distance of ten li |
| 铺 | pù | shop, store; bed, mattress |
| 浦 | pǔ | beach, shore, river bank; surname |
| 捕 | bǔ | to arrest, to catch, to seize |
| 辅 | fǔ | side road; to assist, to coach, to tutor |
| 哺 | bǔ | to chew; to feed |
| 圃 | pǔ | garden, orchard, plot of farmland |
| 脯 | pú | dried meat; preserved fruits |
| 匍 | pú | to crawl; to lie prostrate |
| 逋 | bū | to flee, to run away; to leave a debt unsettled |
| 莆 | pú | a kind of legendary tree |
| 乶 | fǔ | Pholha, a place in Korea |
| 尃 | fū | to announce, to state |
| 晡 | bū | late afternoon |
| 黼 | fǔ | embroidered official or sacrificial robe |
Words containing 埔
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 和记黄埔 | Hé jì Huáng pǔ | Hutchison Whampoa (former investment holding company based in Hong Kong, founded in 1863, … |
| 黄埔军校 | Huáng pǔ Jūn xiào | Whampoa Military Academy |
| 大埔县 | Dà bù Xiàn | Dabu, a county in Meizhou City 梅州市[Mei2 zhou1 Shi4], Guangdong |
| 黄埔区 | Huáng pǔ Qū | Huangpu, a district of Guangzhou City 廣州市|广州市[Guang3 zhou1 Shi4], Guangdong |
| 平埔族 | Píng pǔ zú | Pingpu or Pepo aborigines (Taiwan), "plains tribes" |
| 大埔 | Dà bù | Dabu County in Meizhou 梅州[Mei2 zhou1], Guangdong; Tai Po district of New Territories, Hong… |
| 黄埔 | Huáng pǔ | see 黃埔區|黄埔区[Huang2 pu3 Qu1] |
| 柬埔寨 | Jiǎn pǔ zhài | Cambodia |