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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

HSK 7-9
黄埔军校培养了许多名将。
Huángpǔ jūnxiào péiyǎng le xǔduō míngjiàng.
The Whampoa Military Academy trained many famous generals.
HSK 7-9
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
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