仆
2 readings · tap one to hear it
servant
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 人 +2
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 仆
- Common rank
- #2,518
- Unicode
- U+4EC6
Sound it out + = · + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
servant · Heisig RSH #2059
人 person + magic wand
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 仆
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 更仆难数 | too many to count; very many; innumerable | |
| 前仆后继 | one falls, the next follows (idiom); stepping into the breach to replace fallen comrades; … | |
| 太仆寺旗 | Taibus Banner in Xilingol League 錫林郭勒盟|锡林郭勒盟[Xi1 lin2 guo1 le4 Meng2], Inner Mongolia | |
| 仆人 | servant | |
| 公仆 | public servant; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4] | |
| 主仆 | master and servant | |
| 女仆 | female servant; maid | |
| 太仆 | ministerial title in imperial China (in the Qin and Han dynasties, the minister responsibl… | |
| 太仆寺 | Court of imperial stud, office originally charged with horse breeding; Taibus banner in Xi… | |
| 仆欧 | (old) waiter (loanword from "boy"); attendant | |
| 风尘仆仆 | lit. covered in dust (idiom); fig. travel-worn | |
| 太仆寺卿 | Minister of imperial stud, originally charged with horse breeding | |
| 狼仆 | (old) henchman | |
| 臣仆 | servant | |
| 奴仆 | servant | |
| 仆役 | servant | |
| 僮仆 | boy servant |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 卜 — compare how they read.