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Mythic Mandarin

扑 (pū): meaning and stroke order

扑 (pū) means to throw oneself at, to pounce on, to devote one's energies, to flap, to flutter, to dab.

扑

Simplified
扑
Traditional
撲
Pinyin
pū

Stroke order of 扑

扑

  • pū to throw oneself at; to pounce on
  • 5 strokes
  • Traditional form: 撲

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 扑

  1. pū Traditional 撲
    • to throw oneself at
    • to pounce on
    • to devote one's energies
    • to flap
    • to flutter
    • to dab
    • to pat
    • to bend over

Radical and structure

扑
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 5 strokes · 扌 on the left, 卜 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

扑 in our stories

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  • 祝英台走下花轿，穿着红嫁衣扑到坟前大哭。这时，一声雷响，坟墓裂开了，她毫不犹豫地跳了进去。

    Zhù Yīngtái zǒu xià huājiào chuān zhe hóng jiàyī pū dào fénqián dàkū zhèshí yì shēng léixiǎng fénmù liè kāi le tā háobùyóuyù de tiào le jìnqu

    Zhu Yingtai stepped down from the sedan and, in her red wedding dress, threw herself on the grave, weeping. Then, with a clap of thunder, the grave split open and she leapt in without hesitation.

    From the story The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 扑

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).