扑
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to throw oneself at; to pounce on; to devote one's energies; to flap; to flutter; to dab; to pat; to bend over
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 手 +2
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 扑
- Common rank
- #1,457
- Unicode
- U+6251
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
pounce on · Heisig RSH #1831
fingers + magic wand
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 扑
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 德州扑克 | Texas hold 'em (poker variant) | |
| 扑面而来 | lit. sth hits one in the face; directly in one's face; sth assaults the senses; blatant (a… | |
| 打扑克 | to play cards; to play poker | |
| 扑脸儿 | strikes you in the face | |
| 扑克脸 | poker face | |
| 异香扑鼻 | exotic odors assail the nostrils (idiom) | |
| 扑克牌 | poker (card game); playing card; CL:副[fu4] | |
| 扑克 | poker (game) (loanword); playing cards | |
| 扑面 | lit. sth hits one in the face; directly in one's face; sth assaults the senses; blatant (a… | |
| 扑热息痛 | paracetamol (loanword) | |
| 扑打 | to swat; (of wings) to flap | |
| 扑通 | (onom.) sound of object falling into water; plop | |
| 扑空 | lit. to rush at thin air; fig. to miss one's aim; to have nothing to show for one's troubl… | |
| 相扑 | sumo wrestling; also pr. [xiang4 pu1] | |
| 香味扑鼻 | exotic odors assail the nostrils (idiom) | |
| 反扑 | to counterattack; to come back after a defeat; to retrieve lost ground | |
| 起扑 | chip shot (golf) | |
| 起扑杆 | chipper (golf) | |
| 颠扑不破 | solid; unbreakable; (fig.) irrefutable; incontrovertible; indisputable | |
| 扑落 | to fall; to drop; socket (loanword for "plug") |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 卜 — compare how they read.