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卟

bǔ

Character

What 卟 means

1. used in the transliteration of the names of organic compounds porphyrin {卟啉|bǔ lín} and porphin {卟吩|bǔ fēn}

Words starting with 卟

• 卟吩bǔ fēnporphin C20H14N4 (loanword)
• 卟啉bǔ línporphyrin (organic chemical essential to hemoglobin and chlorophyll) (loanword)

Sounds the same

Read bǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 补to repair; to patch; to mend
• 捕to catch; to seize; to capture
• 哺to feed
• 卜(bound form) to divine
• 堡village (used in place names)
• 𬷕used in 地𬷕dì bǔ

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