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普

pǔ

HSK 4 Character

What 普 means

1. general
2. popular
3. everywhere
4. universal

Example sentences

• 艾普发疯了。
  April went crazy.
• 普丁是战犯。
  Putin is a war criminal.
• 汤姆不是川普。
  Tom is not Trump.
• 你会讲普通话吗？
  Can you speak Mandarin?
• 您会讲普通话吗？
  Can you speak Mandarin?
• 英语已经普及全国。
  Yīngyǔ yǐjīng pǔjí quánguó.
  English has spread all over the country.

Words starting with 普

• 普通话pǔ tōng huàPutonghua; standard Mandarin
• 普遍pǔ biànuniversal; general; widespread
• 普通pǔ tōngcommon; ordinary; general
• 普及pǔ jíto spread extensively; to generalize; widespread
• 普通人pǔ tōng rénordinary person; private citizen; people
• 普拉Pǔ lāPula (city in Croatia)
• 普普通通pǔ pǔ tōng tōngordinary; mediocre; nothing special
• 普罗pǔ luóproletariat (loanword); abbr. for 普罗列塔利亚
• 普希金Pǔ xī jīnAlexandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837), great Russian romantic poet
• 普查pǔ chácensus; general survey; general investigation
• 普遍性pǔ biàn xìngubiquity; universality
• 普照pǔ zhào(of sunlight) to bathe all things; to shine gloriously
• 普选pǔ xuǎnuniversal suffrage
• 普鲁士Pǔ lǔ shìPrussia (historical German state)
• 普林斯顿Pǔ lín sī dùnPrinceton, New Jersey
• 普林斯顿大学Pǔ lín sī dùn Dà xuéPrinceton University
• 普陀山Pǔ tuó shānMt Potala at Zhoushan 舟山市 in Zhejiang, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of…
• 普法pǔ fǎto disseminate knowledge of the law
• 普世pǔ shìuniversal; worldwide
• 普通股pǔ tōng gǔcommon stock
• 普洱茶Pǔ ěr cháPu'er tea, a type of black tea produced in the Pu'er region of southwestern Yunnan
• 普罗旺斯Pǔ luó wàng sīProvence (south of France)
• 普信pǔ xìn(net slang) overly confident despite being average
• 普林pǔ lín(Taiwan; loanword) purine

Words containing 普

• 科普kē pǔpopularization of science (abbr. for 科学普及…
• 吉普车jí pǔ chējeep (military vehicle) (loanword)
• 惠普Huì PǔHewlett-Packard
• 吉普Jí pǔJeep (car brand)
• 菲利普Fēi lì pǔ(name) Philip
• 人口普查rén kǒu pǔ chácensus
• 夏普Xià pǔSharp Corporation
• 汤普森Tāng pǔ sēn(name) Thompson
• 基普jī pǔkip (Laotian currency)
• 广普Guǎng pǔGuangdong pidgin (a mix of Standard Mandarin and Cantonese)
• 标普Biāo pǔS&P (formerly Standard & Poor's), financial services company (abbr. for 标准普尔
• 多普勒Duō pǔ lèChristian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist who discovered the Doppler effect
• 多普达Duō pǔ dáDopod (company name)
• 爱普生Ài pǔ shēngEpson, Japanese electronics company
• 拉普兰Lā pǔ lánLapland (northern Europe)
• 开普勒Kāi pǔ lèJohannes Kepler (1571-1630), German astronomer and formulator of Kepler's laws of…
• 拉普拉斯Lā pǔ lā sīPierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician
• 斯台普斯Sī tái pǔ sīStaples (Center), sports arena in Los Angeles
• 斯普利特Sī pǔ lì tèSplit (city in Croatia)
• 斯科普里Sī kē pǔ lǐSkopje, capital of North Macedonia
• 标准普尔Biāo zhǔn Pǔ ěrS&P (formerly Standard & Poor's), financial services company
• 特里普拉Tè lǐ pǔ lāTripura (Indian state)
• 科学普及kē xué pǔ jípopularization of science
• 科普特人Kē pǔ tè rénthe Copts, major ethnoreligious group of Egyptian Christians

Characters that look like 普

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 鲁lǔ(bound form) crass; stupid; rude
• 董dǒngto supervise; to direct; director
• 兽shòubeast; animal; beastly
• 酱jiàngthick paste of fermented soybean; marinated in soy paste; paste
• 菁jīngleek flower; lush; luxuriant
• 豢huànto rear; to raise (animals)

Sounds the same

Read pǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 谱chart; list; table
• 朴(bound form) plain; simple; Taiwan pr. pú
• 浦river bank; shore; river drainage ditch (old)
• 圃garden; orchard
• 埔used in place names
• 溥extensive; pervading
• 蹼web (of feet of ducks, frogs etc)
• 镨praseodymium (chemistry)
• 氆used in 氆氇
• 誧huge; to admonish
• 烳to travel by the light of torch
• 暜old variant of 普