浦
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river bank; shore; river drainage ditch (old)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 水 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 浦
- Common rank
- #1,380
- Unicode
- U+6D66
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
river mouth · Heisig RSH #2791
水 water + dog tag
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 浦
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 上海浦东发展银行 | Shanghai Pudong Development Bank | |
| 洋浦经济开发区 | Yangpu Economic Development Zone, Hainan | |
| 浦东新区 | see 浦東|浦东[Pu3 dong1] | |
| 浦东机场 | Shanghai Pudong International Airport | |
| 清江浦区 | Qingjiangpu, a district of Huai'an City 淮安市[Huai2 an1 Shi4], Jiangsu | |
| 浦口区 | Pukou, a district of Nanjing City 南京市[Nan2 jing1 Shi4], Jiangsu | |
| 合浦县 | Hepu, a county in Beihai City 北海市[Bei3 hai3 Shi4], Guangxi | |
| 浦城县 | Pucheng, a county in Nanping City 南平市[Nan2 ping2 Shi4], Fujian | |
| 南浦市 | Nampo city in North Korea | |
| 利物浦 | Liverpool (England) | |
| 黄浦区 | Huangpu, the most central of Shanghai's districts | |
| 江浦县 | Jiangpu county, old name of Pukou district 浦口區|浦口区[Pu3 kou3 qu1] of Nanjing, Jiangsu | |
| 浦江县 | Pujiang, a county in Jinhua City 金華市|金华市[Jin1 hua2 Shi4], Zhejiang | |
| 浦北县 | Pubei, a county in Qinzhou City 欽州市|钦州市[Qin1 zhou1 Shi4], Guangxi | |
| 塞浦路斯 | Cyprus | |
| 黄浦江 | Huangpu River, major river flowing through Shanghai, dividing the city into Puxi 浦西[Pu3 xi… | |
| 青浦区 | Qingpu suburban district of Shanghai | |
| 清江浦 | see 清江浦區|清江浦区[Qing1 jiang1 pu3 Qu1] | |
| 飞利浦 | Philips (company) | |
| 洛浦县 | Lop, a county in Hotan City 和田市[He2 tian2 Shi4], Xinjiang |
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 | |
| 捕 | to arrest, to catch, to seize | |
| 辅 | side road; to assist, to coach, to tutor | |
| 哺 | to chew; to feed | |
| 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 |