埔
2 readings · tap one to hear it
used in place names
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 土 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 埔
- Common rank
- #3,280
- Unicode
- U+57D4
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 埔
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 和记黄埔 | Hutchison Whampoa (former investment holding company based in Hong Kong, founded in 1863, … | |
| 黄埔军校 | Whampoa Military Academy | |
| 大埔县 | Dabu, a county in Meizhou City 梅州市[Mei2 zhou1 Shi4], Guangdong | |
| 黄埔区 | Huangpu, a district of Guangzhou City 廣州市|广州市[Guang3 zhou1 Shi4], Guangdong | |
| 平埔族 | Pingpu or Pepo aborigines (Taiwan), "plains tribes" | |
| 大埔 | Dabu County in Meizhou 梅州[Mei2 zhou1], Guangdong; Tai Po district of New Territories, Hong… | |
| 黄埔 | see 黃埔區|黄埔区[Huang2 pu3 Qu1] | |
| 柬埔寨 | Cambodia |
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 | |
| 哺 | to chew; to feed | |
| 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 |