浦口

Pǔkǒu

proper noun

Meanings

1 Pukou (district of Nanjing)

Characters

mouth / opening

Examples

HSK 4

从南京市区过江就到浦口。

Cóng Nánjīng shìqū guò jiāng jiù dào Pǔkǒu.

Cross the river from central Nanjing and you're in Pukou.

HSK 5

浦口在长江北岸。

Pǔkǒu zài Chángjiāng běi'àn.

Pukou is on the north bank of the Yangtze.

Tips

culture

Nanjing's only district on the north bank of the Yangtze. Its old railway station features in Zhu Ziqing's classic essay 《背影》, where the narrator watches his father buy oranges on the platform, a set text in Chinese middle-school textbooks.

Stroke Order

浦 pǔ

口 kǒu