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溥

pǔ

Character

What 溥 means

1. extensive
2. pervading

Other readings

溥 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• Pǔsurname Pu

Example sentences

• 溥天之下，莫非王土；率土之滨，莫非王臣。
  Under the vast heaven, no land is not the king's land; at the edges of the land, no one is not the king's subject.

Words starting with 溥

• 溥仪Pǔ yíPuyi, personal name of the last Qing emperor (reigned as child 1909-1911), the subject of…
• 溥俊Pǔ jùna Qing prince who was the designated successor to emperor Guangxu until the Boxer uprising

Words containing 溥

• 张溥Zhāng PǔMing dynasty scholar (1602–1641), prolific writer, proponent of the Fushe 复社

Characters built on 尃

These share the phonetic component 尃 (fū), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 傅fù(bound form) instructor; (literary) to instruct; to attach
• 缚fùto bind; to tie; Taiwan pr. fú

Characters that look like 溥

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

• 赛sàito compete; competition; match
• 痹bìparalysis; numbness
• 蒋Jiǎngsurname Jiang; Chiang Kai-shek 蒋介石
• 廖Liàosurname Liao
• 滓zǐ(bound form) dregs; sediment
• 瘁cuìcare-worn; distressed; tired

Sounds the same

Read pǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 普general; popular; everywhere
• 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
• 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