鄱 (pó): Poyang (used in the lake name 鄱…

Meanings

1 Poyang (used in the lake name 鄱阳湖, China's largest freshwater lake)

Characters

鄱

pó

Poyang (place name element)

Examples

鄱阳湖在江西省。

Póyánghú zài Jiāngxī Shěng.

Poyang Lake is in Jiangxi Province.

鄱阳湖是中国最大的淡水湖。

Póyánghú shì Zhōngguó zuìdà de dànshuǐhú.

Poyang Lake is China's largest freshwater lake.

Tips

usage

鄱 survives almost entirely in one name: 鄱阳湖 (Poyang Lake) and the old county name 鄱阳. You will rarely see it anywhere else.

Components

radical

阝 yì

city; settlement

The right-side 阝 is the city radical 邑 in its right-hand form. On the right it always means a town or administrative place, marking 鄱 as a geographic name.

phonetic

番 fān

turn; a turn; foreign

番 carries the sound, drifted from fān to pó. The whole left side traces back to an old place name 番邑 that the right-side city radical then marked as a settlement.