脯 — Chinese character
脯
pú
dried meat; preserved fruits
- Pinyin
- pú
- Radical
- 130 ⾁ (Meat)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 甫
- Formation
- pictophonetic — meat; meaning component ⺼; sound component 甫
- Japanese
- 脯 as a kanji
Common words with 脯
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 胸脯 | xiōng pú | chest |
| 果脯 | guǒ fǔ | candied fruit |
| 脯氨酸 | pú ān suān | proline (Pro), an amino acid |
| 拍胸脯 | pāi xiōng pú | to vouch for |
| 肉脯 | ròu fǔ | dried meat |
| 菜脯 | cài fǔ | dried, pickled white radish |
| 漏脯充饥 (漏脯充飢) | lòu fǔ chōng jī | (lit.) to eat rotten meat to assuage hunger (idiom); (fig.) to disregard long-term consequences for short-term benefits; shortsighted |
| 脯子 | pú zi | breast meat (of chicken etc) |
脯 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1
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.