扑 — Chinese character
扑
pū
to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
- Pinyin
- pū
- Radical
- 64 ⼿ (Hand)
- Strokes
- 5
- Components
- 扌 卜
- Formation
- pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 卜
- Traditional
- 撲
Common words with 扑
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扑克 (撲克) | pū kè | poker (game) (loanword); playing cards |
| 扑灭 (撲滅) | pū miè | to eradicate; to extinguish |
| 扑克牌 (撲克牌) | pū kè pái | poker (card game); playing card |
| 相扑 (相撲) | xiāng pū | sumo wrestling; also pr. [xiang4 pu1] |
| 反扑 (反撲) | fǎn pū | to counterattack; to come back after a defeat |
| 拓扑 (拓撲) | tuò pū | (math.) (loanword) topology |
| 扑救 (撲救) | pū jiù | firefighting; to extinguish a fire and save life and property |
| 扑杀 (撲殺) | pū shā | to kill; to cull |
| 拓扑学 (拓撲學) | tuò pū xué | (math.) topology |
| 扑通 (撲通) | pū tōng | (onom.) sound of object falling into water; plop |
| 扑面而来 (撲面而來) | pū miàn ér lái | lit. sth hits one in the face; directly in one's face |
| 扑朔迷离 (撲朔迷離) | pū shuò mí lí | impossible to unravel; confusing |
English words written with 扑
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.