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埔

pǔ / bù
noun #46,616

Meanings

  1. 1 used in place names (e.g. 黄埔, 柬埔寨)

Examples

黄埔军校培养了许多名将。
Huángpǔ jūnxiào péiyǎng le xǔduō míng jiàng.
The Whampoa Military Academy trained many famous generals.
我们参观了柬埔寨的吴哥窟。
Wǒmen cānguān le Jiǎnpǔzhài de Wúgēkū.
We visited the Angkor temples in Cambodia.

Tips

mistakes
Two readings, both place-name only. pǔ is in 黄埔 (Huángpǔ, in Guangzhou) and 柬埔寨 (Jiǎnpǔzhài, Cambodia). The reading bù is used in 大埔 (Dàbù, places in Guangdong and Hong Kong).

Components

radical
土 tǔ
earth; soil
The earth radical 土 on the left is typical of characters for land and place names, which is this character's only real use.
phonetic
甫 fǔ
just; barely (phonetic)
甫 serves as the sound element. Its reading underlies both pǔ and bù; the same phonetic appears in 捕 and 铺.

Stroke Order

埔 pǔ