Chinese symbol for “bushel”
蒲式耳
pú shì ěr
bushel (eight gallons)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for bushel is 蒲式耳 (pú shì ěr), defined as: bushel (eight gallons).
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Characters and stroke order
Related words
Other words that share a character with 蒲式耳.
| 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 |
| 香蒲 | xiāng pú | Typha orientalis; broadleaf cumbungi |
| 蒲扇 | pú shàn | palm-leaf fan; cattail-leaf fan |
| 方式 | fāng shì | way; method; manner; mode; pattern (of behavior etc); 种 (zhǒng) |
| 正式 | zhèng shì | formal; official |
| 模式 | mó shì | mode; pattern; model |
| 耳朵 | ěr duo | ear; 只 (zhī),个 (gè),对 (duì) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “bushel”.
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.