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撲

pū

to beat

Phonosemantic compound. 扌represents the meaning and 菐 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

hand

菐 sound,meaning component

菐  Sound Meaning component

pú

  

(beat against), tedious

Evolution

撲 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
撲 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
撲 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
撲 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
撲 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

扑 (撲) 

pū

pound, beat, strike; attack; to throw oneself at; to pounce on; to devote one's energies; to flap; to flutter; to dab; to pat; to bend over

Most common words with 撲
Freq.
Word
Meaning

扑

to flap

扑克

playing cards

扑灭

to eradicate

扑克牌

poker (card game)

扑救

firefighting

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pʰˤok

phuwk

pū

beat (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 9.5467% of movies

1971st most common character in movies

1509th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

扑

Unicode

U+64B2

Shuowen

“撲，挨也。从手，菐聲。”


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