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脯

fǔ

Character

What 脯 means

1. dried meat
2. preserved fruit

Other readings

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

• púchest; breast

Words starting with 脯

• 脯子pú zibreast meat (of chicken etc)
• 脯氨酸pú ān suānproline (Pro), an amino acid

Words containing 脯

• 胸脯xiōng púchest
• 果脯guǒ fǔcandied fruit
• 肉脯ròu fǔdried meat
• 菜脯cài fǔdried, pickled white radish
• 拍胸脯pāi xiōng púto vouch for
• 漏脯充饥lòu fǔ chōng jī(lit.) to eat rotten meat to assuage hunger (idiom)…

Characters built on 甫

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

• 捕bǔto catch; to seize; to capture
• 辅fǔto assist; to complement; auxiliary
• 浦pǔriver bank; shore; river drainage ditch (old)
• 铺pūto spread; to display; to set up
• 埔bùused in place names
• 哺bǔto feed
• 圃pǔgarden; orchard
• 匍púused in 匍匐

Characters that look like 脯

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

• 痛tòngache; pain; sorrow
• 猫māocat; (dialect) to hide oneself; (loanword; colloquial) modem
• 桶tǒngbucket; (trash) can; barrel (of oil etc)
• 琥hǔused in 琥珀
• 腌āused in 腌臜; Taiwan pr. āng
• 掮qiánto carry on the shoulder

Sounds the same

Read fǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 府seat of government; government repository (archive); official residence
• 腐decay; rotten
• 辅to assist; to complement; auxiliary
• 抚to comfort; to console; to stroke
• 俯to look down; to stoop
• 甫(classical) barely; just; just now
• 斧hatchet
• 釜kettle; cauldron
• 腑internal organs
• 呒perplexed; astonished
• 拊pat
• 滏name of a river in Hebei