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蔀

bù

Character

What 蔀 means

1. literaryto cover; to shelter
2. literary76 years (unit of time in ancient calendars)

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
• 簿a book; a register; account-book
• 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
• 㘵(used in place names)

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