脯
2 readings · tap one to hear it
chest; breast
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 肉 +7
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 脯
- Common rank
- #3,323
- Unicode
- U+812F
Sound it out + = · + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 脯
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拍胸脯 | to vouch for | |
| 脯子 | breast meat (of chicken etc) | |
| 脯氨酸 | proline (Pro), an amino acid | |
| 菜脯 | dried, pickled white radish | |
| 肉脯 | dried meat | |
| 果脯 | candied fruit | |
| 胸脯 | chest | |
| 漏脯充饥 | (lit.) to eat rotten meat to assuage hunger (idiom); (fig.) to disregard long-term consequ… |
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 | |
| 埔 | arena; market; plain; port | |
| 圃 | garden, orchard, plot of farmland | |
| 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 |