Chinese symbol for “brutish”
泼
pō
Traditional: 潑
to splash; to spill; rough and coarse; brutish
The closest CC-CEDICT match for brutish is 泼 (pō), defined as: to splash; to spill; rough and coarse; brutish.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Related words
Other words that share a character with 泼.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 活泼 (活潑) | huó po | lively; vivacious |
| 泼妇 (潑婦) | pō fù | shrew; vixen |
| 泼辣 (潑辣) | pō la | shrewish; pungent |
| 泼水 (潑水) | pō shuǐ | to splash water |
| 泼冷水 (潑冷水) | pō lěng shuǐ | to pour cold water on; (fig.) to dampen sb's enthusiasm |
| 瓢泼大雨 (瓢潑大雨) | piáo pō dà yǔ | downpour (idiom) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “brutish”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.