脯
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chest; breast
11 strokes
Dict coverage rank #3,323 U+812F
How 脯 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
⺼ (semantic, “meat”) + 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 |
| 埔 | pǔ | arena; market; plain; port |
| 圃 | pǔ | garden, orchard, plot of farmland |
| 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 脯
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拍胸脯 | pāi xiōng pú | to vouch for |
| 脯子 | pú zi | breast meat (of chicken etc) |
| 脯氨酸 | pú ān suān | proline (Pro), an amino acid |
| 菜脯 | cài fǔ | dried, pickled white radish |
| 肉脯 | ròu fǔ | dried meat |
| 果脯 | guǒ fǔ | candied fruit |
| 胸脯 | xiōng pú | chest |
| 漏脯充饥 | lòu fǔ chōng jī | (lit.) to eat rotten meat to assuage hunger (idiom); (fig.) to disregard long-term consequ… |