哺
2 readings · tap one to hear it
to feed
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 口 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 哺
- Common rank
- #2,772
- Unicode
- U+54FA
Sound it out + = · + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 哺
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 哺乳动物 | mammal | |
| 哺乳期 | breastfeeding period; lactation period; suckling period | |
| 哺母乳 | breastfeeding | |
| 哺乳类 | mammals | |
| 反哺 | to support one's parents in their old age; to show filial piety; to to repay; to return a … | |
| 哺养 | feed; rear | |
| 哺乳纲 | Mammalia, the class of mammals | |
| 乳哺 | (literary) to feed an infant breast milk | |
| 哺乳 | breastfeeding; to suckle; to nurse | |
| 哺育 | to feed; (fig.) to nurture; to foster | |
| 辍食吐哺 | to stop eating and spit out | |
| 喂哺 | to feed (a baby) | |
| 嗷嗷待哺 | cry piteously for food |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 甫 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 甫 sound part | to begin; man, father; great; a distance of ten li | |
| 铺 | shop, store; bed, mattress | |
| 浦 | beach, shore, river bank; surname | |
| 捕 | to arrest, to catch, to seize | |
| 辅 | side road; to assist, to coach, to tutor | |
| 埔 | arena; market; plain; port | |
| 圃 | garden, orchard, plot of farmland | |
| 脯 | dried meat; preserved fruits | |
| 匍 | to crawl; to lie prostrate | |
| 逋 | to flee, to run away; to leave a debt unsettled | |
| 莆 | a kind of legendary tree | |
| 乶 | Pholha, a place in Korea | |
| 尃 | to announce, to state | |
| 晡 | late afternoon | |
| 黼 | embroidered official or sacrificial robe |