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普

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general; popular; everywhere; universal

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HSK 3.0
Level 2
Old HSK
Level 4
Strokes
12
Radical
日 +8
Structure
Top–bottom 上下
Traditional
普
Common rank
#305
Unicode
U+666E

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Formation & memory

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How 普 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

Everyone 並 under the sun 日

Components 並 日

How to remember it

universal · Heisig RSH #1348

side by side + sun

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Words with 普

The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.

WordPinyinMeaning
拉普拉斯 Lā pǔ lā sī Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician
普通中学 pǔ tōng zhōng xué general middle school
克里普斯 Kè lǐ pǔ sī Cripps (name); Sir Stafford Cripps (1889-1952), UK socialist politician
斯普利特 Sī pǔ lì tè Split (city in Croatia)
普天之下 pǔ tiān zhī xià (idiom) all under heaven; in the whole world; throughout the world
斯台普斯 Sī tái pǔ sī Staples (Center), sports arena in Los Angeles
普通高中 pǔ tōng gāo zhōng general academic senior high school (as opposed to vocational high schools)
普安县 Pǔ ān Xiàn Pu'an, a county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 黔西南布依族苗族自治州[Qian2 xi1 na…
特里普拉 Tè lǐ pǔ lā Tripura (Indian state)
斯普特尼克 Sī pǔ tè ní kè Sputnik, Soviet artificial Earth satellite
普天下 pǔ tiān xià throughout the world
科普特人 Kē pǔ tè rén the Copts, major ethnoreligious group of Egyptian Christians
普通人 pǔ tōng rén ordinary person; private citizen; people; the person in the street
斯科普里 Sī kē pǔ lǐ Skopje, capital of North Macedonia
普拉亚 Pǔ lā yà Praia, capital of Cape Verde
普定县 Pǔ dìng Xiàn Puding, a county in Anshun City 安順市|安顺市[An1 shun4 Shi4], Guizhou
普布斯 pǔ bù sī Tillandsia pueblensis, a species of air plants
科普特语 Kē pǔ tè yǔ Coptic, Afro-Asiatic language of the Copts 科普特人[Ke1 pu3 te4 ren2], spoken in Egypt until l…
普通法 pǔ tōng fǎ common law
阿卡普尔科 Ā kǎ pǔ ěr kē Acapulco, city in Mexico

Sound family

These characters use 普 as their sound component — compare how they read.

CharacterPinyinMeaning
普 sound part pǔ widespread, universal, general
谱 pǔ chart, list, table; spectrum; musical score
潽 pū to boil over
氆 pǔ thick rough serge from Tibet
镨 pǔ praseodymium