谱

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chart; list; table; register; score (music); spectrum (physics); to set to music

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Formation & memory

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Phono-semantic compound (形声字)

讠 meaning “speech” + 普 sound ( pǔ )

Components 讠普

musical score · Heisig RSH #2756

words + 普 universal

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
天体光谱学	tiān tǐ guāng pǔ xué	astronomical spectroscopy
心里有谱	xīn lǐ yǒu pǔ	to have a plan in mind
红外光谱	hóng wài guāng pǔ	infrared spectrum
有谱儿	yǒu pǔ r	erhua variant of 有譜\|有谱[you3 pu3]
白香词谱	Bái xiāng cí pǔ	Anthology of ci poems tunes (1795), edited by Xu Menglan 舒夢蘭\|舒梦兰, with 100 accessible poem…
光谱学	guāng pǔ xué	spectroscopy
青云谱区	Qīng yún pǔ Qū	Qingyunpu, a district of Nanchang City 南昌市[Nan2 chang1 Shi4], Jiangxi
金兰谱	jīn lán pǔ	(old) genealogical records of sworn brothers, each keeping a copy
暗线光谱	àn xiàn guāng pǔ	dark-line spectrum
光谱图	guāng pǔ tú	spectrogram
五线谱	wǔ xiàn pǔ	(music) staff; stave
记谱法	jì pǔ fǎ	method of music notation
离谱儿	lí pǔ r	erhua form of 離譜\|离谱[li2 pu3]
基因图谱	jī yīn tú pǔ	mapping of genome
没谱儿	méi pǔ r	erhua variant of 沒譜\|没谱[mei2 pu3]
青云谱	Qīng yún pǔ	see 青雲譜區\|青云谱区[Qing1 yun2 pu3 Qu1]
谱子	pǔ zi	musical score
谱学	pǔ xué	spectroscopy
家谱	jiā pǔ	genealogy; family tree
有谱	yǒu pǔ	to have a plan; to know what one is doing

Characters sharing the sound component 普 — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
普 sound part	pǔ	widespread, universal, general
潽	pū	to boil over
氆	pǔ	thick rough serge from Tibet
镨	pǔ	praseodymium