勃
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flourishing; prosperous; suddenly; abruptly
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
vibrant · Heisig RSH #2425
Sunday school + muscle
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 勃
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 勃然变色 | to suddenly change color showing displeasure, bewilderment etc | |
| 勃利县 | Boli, a county in Qitaihe City 七臺河市|七台河市[Qi1 tai2 he2 Shi4], Heilongjiang | |
| 克格勃 | KGB (Soviet secret police); member of the KGB | |
| 夏洛特·勃良特 | Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), English novelist, eldest of three Brontë sisters, author of … | |
| 勃拉姆斯 | Brahms (name); Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), German romantic composer | |
| 海勃湾区 | Haibowan, a district of Wuhai City 烏海市|乌海市[Wu1 hai3 Shi4], Inner Mongolia | |
| 勃然大怒 | (idiom) to fly into a rage; to see red | |
| 马勃菌 | puffball (mushroom in the division Basidiomycota) | |
| 生气蓬勃 | vibrant; full of vitality | |
| 生机勃勃 | (idiom) vibrant; full of vitality | |
| 勃海 | Han dynasty province around the Bohai sea; renamed 渤海 after the Han | |
| 生气勃勃 | (idiom) vibrant; full of vitality | |
| 勃发 | to sprout up; to flourish; (of war etc) to break out; rapid growth | |
| 勃固山脉 | Pegu Yoma (mountain range) of south central Myanmar (Burma), separating Irrawaddy and Sitt… | |
| 勃利 | see 勃利縣|勃利县[Bo2 li4 Xian4] | |
| 海勃湾 | see 海勃灣區|海勃湾区[Hai3 bo2 wan1 Qu1] | |
| 勃兰登堡 | Brandenburg | |
| 朝气蓬勃 | full of youthful energy (idiom); vigorous; energetic; a bright spark | |
| 勃然 | suddenly; abruptly; agitatedly; excitedly; vigorously | |
| 勃起 | erection; to have an erection |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 孛 — compare how they read.