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簿

bù

Character

What 簿 means

1. a book
2. a register
3. account-book

Example sentences

• 电话簿在哪里？
  Diànhuàbù zài nǎlǐ?
  Where's the phone book?
• 我的相簿在这里。
  My album is here.
• 我能看看电话簿吗？
  Wǒ néng kànkan diànhuàbù ma?
  May I see the telephone directory?
• 她给我看她的相簿。
  Tā gěi wǒ kàn tā de xiàngbù.
  She showed me her album.
• 架上放着一本相簿。
  There is an album on the shelf.
• 我姑姑给了我一本相簿。
  Wǒ gūgu gěi le wǒ yī běn xiàngbù.
  My aunt gave me an album.

Words starting with 簿

• 簿册bù cèa register; land register; account book
• 簿子bù zinotebook; book
• 簿籍bù jíaccount books; registers; records
• 簿记bù jìbookkeeping

Words containing 簿

• 留言簿liú yán bùvisitor's book
• 电话簿diàn huà bùtelephone directory
• 户口簿hù kǒu bùhousehold register
• 主簿zhǔ bùofficial registrar (of a county etc) in imperial China
• 存簿cún bùsavings book; bank account passbook
• 对簿duì bùto confront sb with accusation; written charge in court (in former times)…
• 相簿xiàng bùphoto album
• 账簿zhàng bùaccount book; ledger
• 面簿Miàn bù(mainly Singapore) Facebook
• 剪贴簿jiǎn tiē bùscrapbook
• 功劳簿gōng láo bùrecord of achievements; (fig.) laurels (as sth one rests on)
• 拍纸簿pāi zhǐ bùwriting pad
• 支票簿zhī piào bùcheckbook (banking)
• 烟花簿yān huā bùcatalog of prostitutes (esp. in Yuan theater)
• 考勤簿kǎo qín bùattendance record book
• 联络簿lián luò bùcontact book
• 记事簿jì shì bùa memo book (recording events)
• 集邮簿jí yóu bùstamp album
• 对簿公堂duì bù gōng tángpublic courtroom accusation (idiom); legal confrontation; to take sb to court
• 户口名簿hù kǒu míng bù(Taiwan) household registration certificate (identity document)
• 帐簿zhàng bùvariant of 账簿

Characters built on 竹

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

• 符fúmark; sign; talisman
• 筑zhùfive-string lute; Taiwan pr. zhú
• 笃dǔ(bound form) sincere; genuine; (bound form) (of an illness) serious
• 簇cù(bound form) to cluster; to pile up; cluster; pile…
• 箍gūhoop; to bind with hoops
• 竺Zhúsurname Zhu; abbr. for 天竺; (archaic) Buddhism
• 笏hù(old) ceremonial tablet (held by officials at an audience)
• 簌sùused in 簌簌

Characters that look like 簿

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

• 藤téngrattan; cane; vine
• 蹲dūnto crouch; to squat; to stay (somewhere)
• 藻zǎoaquatic grasses; elegant
• 藩fānfence; hedge; (literary) screen; barrier; vassal state
• 攘rǎng(literary) to push up one's sleeves; (literary) to reject; to resist…
• 獾huānbadger

Sounds the same

Read bù, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 不no; not so; (bound form) not; un-
• 部ministry; department; section
• 步a step; a pace; walk
• 布cloth; to declare; to announce
• 怖terror; terrified; afraid
• 埠(bound form) wharf; pier; port town; (Taiwan; computing; bound form) port
• 埔used in place names
• 钚plutonium (chemistry)
• 瓿a kind of vase (old); see 安瓿
• 埗wharf; dock; jetty
• 蔀(literary) to cover; to shelter; (literary) 76 years (unit of time in ancient calendars)
• 㘵(used in place names)