蒲 — Chinese character
蒲
pú
vine, rush
- Pinyin
- pú
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 14
- Components
- 艹 浦
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 浦
- Japanese
- 蒲 as a kanji
Common words with 蒲
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 蒲公英 | pú gōng yīng | dandelion (Taraxacum mongolicum) |
| 蒲团 (蒲團) | pú tuán | praying mat (Buddhism, made of woven cattail) |
| 菖蒲 | chāng pú | Acorus calamus; sweet sedge or sweet flag |
| 蒲式耳 | pú shì ěr | bushel (eight gallons) |
| 香蒲 | xiāng pú | Typha orientalis; broadleaf cumbungi |
| 蒲扇 | pú shàn | palm-leaf fan; cattail-leaf fan |
| 蒲葵 | pú kuí | Chinese fan palm (Livistona chinensis) |
| 蒲桃 | pú táo | rose apple (Syzygium jambos) |
| 水菖蒲 | shuǐ chāng pú | Acorus calamus; sweet sedge or sweet flag |
| 水蒲苇莺 (水蒲葦鶯) | shuǐ pú wěi yīng | (bird species of China) sedge warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) |
| 洋蒲桃 | yáng pú táo | love apple; wax apple |
| 蒲包 | pú bāo | cattail bag; (old) gift of fruit or pastries (traditionally presented in a cattail bag) |
English words written with 蒲
蒲 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 2 · Doctrine of the Mean 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.