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圃

pǔ
noun #81,770

Meanings

  1. 1 garden plot; vegetable garden
  2. 2 nursery (for plants)

Examples

HSK 5
爷爷在屋后的菜圃里种了各种蔬菜。
Yéye zài wūhòu de càipǔ lǐ zhòng le gèzhǒng shūcài.
Grandpa grows all kinds of vegetables in the garden plot out back.
HSK 7-9
苗圃里的树苗长得绿油油的。
Miáopǔ lǐ de shùmiáo zhǎng de lǜyóuyóu de.
The seedlings in the nursery are coming up green and healthy.

Tips

usage
圃 is a plot of ground for growing plants. Common compounds are 菜圃 (vegetable garden), 花圃 (flower bed) and 苗圃 (plant nursery).

Components

radical
囗 wéi
enclosure
The enclosure radical 囗 wraps the character: its top and left are drawn first and the closing bottom stroke comes last, after the inside. It marks 圃 as a bounded patch of ground.
phonetic
甫 fǔ
just; barely
Inside the enclosure sits 甫, the phonetic element; the sound has shifted from fǔ to pǔ, a close related reading.

Stroke Order

圃 pǔ