布 — Chinese character
布
bù
cotton, linen, textiles; to announce, to declare; to spread
- Pinyin
- bù
- Radical
- 50 ⼱ (Turban)
- Strokes
- 5
- Components
- 巾
- Formation
- ideographic — Cloth 巾 held in a hand
- Japanese
- 布 as a kanji
Common words with 布
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 发布 (發佈) | fā bù | variant of 发布 (fā bù) |
| 发布 (發布) | fā bù | to release; to issue |
| 宣布 (宣佈) | xuān bù | variant of 宣布 (xuān bù) |
| 宣布 | xuān bù | to declare; to announce |
| 公布 (公佈) | gōng bù | variant of 公布 (gōng bù) |
| 公布 | gōng bù | to announce; to make public; to publish |
| 分布 (分佈) | fēn bù | to scatter; to distribute |
| 布局 (佈局) | bù jú | arrangement; composition |
| 颁布 (頒布) | bān bù | to issue; to proclaim |
| 发布会 (發布會) | fā bù huì | press conference; news conference; product launch event |
| 布置 (佈置) | bù zhì | to arrange; to set up; to lay out; to assign (tasks, homework etc) |
| 瀑布 | pù bù | waterfall |
English words written with 布
布 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Mencius 5 · Zhuangzi 10 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Analects 10.7
- Mencius 2A.5
- Mencius 3A.4
- Mencius 3B.4
- Mencius 7B.27
- Zhuangzi Opening Trunks
- Zhuangzi The Circling Sky
- Zhuangzi Mountain Trees
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.