布
cloth; to declare; to announce; to spread; to make known
5 strokes
Dict coverage rank #124 U+5E03
How 布 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Cloth 巾 held in a hand
How to remember it
cloth · Heisig RSH #414
by one’s side + 巾 towel
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 布 as their sound component
These characters all use 布 (bù) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 布 sound component | bù | cotton, linen, textiles; to announce, to declare; to spread |
| 怖 | bù | frightened, terrified |
| 钸 | bū | plutonium |
Words containing 布
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拉布拉多 | Lā bù lā duō | Labrador, Canada; Labrador (a breed of dog) |
| 发布会 | fā bù huì | press conference; news conference; product launch event |
| 布尔 | Bù ěr | (surname) Boole; (math.) Boolean |
| 拉布 | lā bù | (Hong Kong) to filibuster |
| 马布多 | Mǎ bù duō | Maputo, capital of Mozambique (Tw) |
| 白布 | bái bù | plain white cloth; calico |
| 巴布尔 | Bā bù ěr | Zaheeruddin Babur (1483-1530), first ruler of Mughal dynasty of India |
| 花布 | huā bù | printed cloth; calico |
| 分布 | fēn bù | to scatter; to distribute; to be distributed (over an area etc); (statistical, geographic)… |
| 公布 | gōng bù | variant of 公布[gong1 bu4] |
| 公布 | gōng bù | to announce; to make public; to publish |
| 发布 | fā bù | variant of 發布|发布[fa1 bu4] |
| 发布 | fā bù | to release; to issue; to announce; to distribute |
| 科特布斯 | Kē tè bù sī | Cottbus (city in Germany) |
| 林德布拉德 | Lín dé bù lā dé | Lindeblatt (name) |
| 布达拉山 | Bù dá lā shān | Mt Potala in Lhasa, with Potala Palace 布達拉宮|布达拉宫 |
| 布下 | bù xià | to arrange; to lay out |
| 拉布布 | Lā bù bu | Labubu, an elf-like toy character created by Hong Kong artist Kasing Lung |
| 布法罗 | Bù fǎ luó | Buffalo, New York state |
| 巴布拉族 | Bā bù lā zú | Papora or Papura, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan |