noun #60,462

Meanings

  1. 1 uncarved jade
  2. 2 jade still in the rough

Examples

Zhège niánqīngrén shì kuài dài diāo de púyù.
This young man is a piece of rough jade waiting to be polished.
为人璞玉浑金
Tā wéirén púyùhúnjīn.
His character is pure and unadorned, like uncut jade and unrefined gold.

Tips

memory
Picture a lump of stone with jade hidden inside: that is . 璞玉 — 'rough jade' — is a common metaphor for raw talent not yet refined.

Components

radical
jade
Left side is the jade radical, written like but standing for (jade) when used on the left of a character. It marks this as jade still inside its stone.
phonetic
(here) sound
Right side supplies the sound pú; the same phonetic appears in and , a family clustered around plain, unworked things.

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