泊
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to moor (a boat); to park (a vehicle); (literary) calm; quiet; peaceful
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
moor · Heisig RSH #1532
水 water + dove
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 泊
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尼泊尔王国 | Kingdom of Nepal | |
| 代客泊车 | valet parking | |
| 泊松分布 | Poisson distribution (in statistics) | |
| 泊头市 | Botou, a county-level city in Cangzhou City 滄州市|沧州市[Cang1 zhou1 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 尼泊尔 | Nepal | |
| 罗布泊 | Lop Nor, former salt lake in Xinjiang, now a salt-encrusted lake bed | |
| 接泊车 | shuttle bus | |
| 淡泊名利 | not caring about fame and fortune (idiom); indifferent to worldly rewards | |
| 淡泊明志 | living a simple life as one's ideal (idiom) | |
| 泊头 | see 泊頭市|泊头市[Bo2 tou2 Shi4] | |
| 泊车 | to park a vehicle | |
| 尼泊尔鹪鹛 | (bird species of China) Nepal cupwing; immaculate cupwing; Nepal wren-babbler (Pnoepyga im… | |
| 血泊 | pool of blood | |
| 泊位 | berth (for a ship); parking space (for a vehicle) | |
| 落泊 | down and out; in dire straits; unrestrained; unconventional | |
| 系泊 | to moor | |
| 泊松 | S.D. Poisson (1781-1840), French mathematician; also pr. [Po1 song1] | |
| 湖泊 | lake | |
| 泊船 | to moor a boat or ship | |
| 莫泊桑 | Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), French novelist and short story writer |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 白 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 白 sound part | white; clear, pure, unblemished; bright | |
| 百 | one hundred; numerous, many | |
| 伯 | older brother; father's elder brother; sir, sire, count | |
| 拍 | to clap, to tap; to hit, to beat, to slap; beat, rhythm | |
| 柏 | cypress, cedar | |
| 怕 | to fear, to be afraid of; apprehensive | |
| 迫 | to compel, to force; pressing, urgent | |
| 魄 | vigor, soul, body; the dark side of the moon | |
| 帛 | silk, fabric; wealth, property | |
| 舶 | large ship, ocean-going vessel | |
| 粕 | sediment, lees, dregs | |
| 铂 | platinum; thin sheet metal |