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Chinese symbol for “pounce”

扑袭
pū xí
Traditional: 撲襲
(of an animal) to pounce (on its prey); (of extreme weather conditions) to hit (a city, province etc)

The closest CC-CEDICT match for pounce is 扑袭 (pū xí), defined as: (of an animal) to pounce (on its prey); (of extreme weather conditions) to hit (a city, province etc).

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Characters and stroke order

扑 pū
to attack, to beat, to hit, to strike
radical 64 ⼿ · 5 strokes
袭 xí
to attack, to raid; to inherit
radical 145 ⾐ · 11 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 扑袭.

WordPinyinMeaning
扑克 (撲克)pū kèpoker (game) (loanword); playing cards
扑灭 (撲滅)pū mièto eradicate; to extinguish
扑克牌 (撲克牌)pū kè páipoker (card game); playing card
相扑 (相撲)xiāng pūsumo wrestling; also pr. [xiang4 pu1]
反扑 (反撲)fǎn pūto counterattack; to come back after a defeat
拓扑 (拓撲)tuò pū(math.) (loanword) topology
袭击 (襲擊)xí jīattack (esp. surprise attack); raid
空袭 (空襲)kōng xíto make an air raid

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.