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谱

pǔ

HSK 6 Character Traditional 譜

What 谱 means

1. chart
2. list
3. table
4. register
5. score (music)
6. spectrum (physics)
7. to set to music

Example sentences

• 这是我奶奶的食谱。
  This recipe is my grandmother's.
• 谱号下面标了个8。
  An "8" was placed below the clef sign.
• 她不靠谱因为她经常说谎。
  Tā bù kàopǔ yīnwèi tā jīngcháng shuōhuǎng.
  She cannot be relied on because she often tells lies.
• 对汤姆来说一切都开始错得离谱。
  Duì Tāngmǔ lái shuō yīqiè dōu kāishǐ cuò de lípǔ.
  Everything is going horribly wrong for Tom.
• 他连高音谱号和低音谱号都分不清。
  He can't even tell a treble clef from a bass clef.
• 马修的姊姊在试过他的食谱后说道：「我今晚要试着为家人做帕玛森鸡排。」
  "I'm going to try to make chicken parmesan for my family tonight," said Matthew's sister after trying his recipe.

Words starting with 谱

• 谱写pǔ xiěto compose (a piece of music); (fig.) to create, by one's actions, a narrative…
• 谱子pǔ zimusical score
• 谱学pǔ xuéspectroscopy
• 谱带pǔ dàiband of a spectrum
• 谱曲pǔ qǔto compose a piece of music
• 谱架pǔ jiàmusic stand
• 谱氏pǔ shìfamily tree; ancestral records
• 谱系pǔ xìpedigree
• 谱线pǔ xiànspectral line
• 谱表pǔ biǎomusical stave
• 谱分析pǔ fēn xīspectral analysis (physics)
• 谱牒pǔ diégenealogical record; record of ancestors; family tree

Words containing 谱

• 乐谱yuè pǔa musical score; sheet music
• 家谱jiā pǔgenealogy; family tree
• 离谱lí pǔinappropriate; improper; out of place
• 食谱shí pǔcookbook; recipe; diet
• 菜谱cài pǔmenu (in restaurant); recipe; cookbook
• 脸谱liǎn pǔtypes of facial makeup in operas
• 靠谱kào pǔreliable; reasonable; probable
• 年谱nián pǔchronicle (of sb's life)
• 光谱guāng pǔspectrum
• 族谱zú pǔgenealogical record; family history; lineage
• 五线谱wǔ xiàn pǔ(music) staff; stave
• 印谱yìn pǔcollection of seal stamps
• 图谱tú pǔarchive of graphics (e.g. maps, documents or botanical figures); atlas…
• 广谱guǎng pǔbroad spectrum
• 摆谱bǎi pǔto put on airs; to be ostentatious
• 有谱yǒu pǔto have a plan; to know what one is doing
• 没谱méi pǔto be clueless; to have no plan
• 波谱bō pǔspectrum
• 神谱shén pǔlist of Gods and Immortals; pantheon
• 简谱jiǎn pǔmusic notation in which the notes Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La and Si are represented by…
• 总谱zǒng pǔmusical score
• 老谱lǎo pǔold ways; old habit
• 兰谱lán pǔlit. directory of orchids; fig. genealogical record…
• 记谱jì pǔto notate music; to write a score

Characters built on 普

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

• 镨pǔpraseodymium (chemistry)
• 氆pǔused in 氆氇
• 潽pūto boil over

Characters that look like 谱

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

• 谨jǐncautious; careful; solemnly
• 墙qiángwall; (slang) to block (a website) (usu. in the passive: 被墙
• 催cuīto urge; to press; to prompt
• 谬miù(bound form) false; erroneous; absurd; mu (Greek letter Μ, μ)
• 缮shànto repair; to mend; to rewrite
• 谩mánto deceive

Sounds the same

Read pǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 普general; popular; everywhere
• 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