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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
pǔ | pu3
English translation
chart, list, table; spectrum; musical score

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Number of strokes

19

Traditional form

Contains the radical

yán

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

言普

Semantic compound

yán

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. yán represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

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Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
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离谱 lí pǔ excessive離譜
食谱 shí pǔ cookbook食譜
菜谱 cài pǔ recipe菜譜
光谱 guāng pǔ spectrum光譜
乐谱 yuèpǔ a musical score樂譜
图谱 tú pǔ atlas圖譜
频谱 pín pǔ spectrum頻譜
家谱 jiā pǔ genealogy家譜
质谱仪 zhì pǔ yí mass spectrometer質譜儀
脸谱 Liǎn pǔ Facebook臉譜
族谱 zú pǔ lineage族譜
谱曲 pǔ qǔ to compose a piece of music譜曲
谱写 pǔ xiě to compose (a piece of music)譜寫
光谱仪 guāng pǔ yí spectrometer光譜儀
谱子 pǔ zi musical score譜子
质谱 zhì pǔ mass spectrometry質譜
没谱 méi pǔ to be clueless沒譜
摆谱 bǎi pǔ to put on airs擺譜
五线谱 wǔ xiàn pǔ stave五線譜
谱系 pǔ xì pedigree譜係
棋谱 qí pǔ kifu (record of a game of go or shogi)棋譜
年谱 nián pǔ chronicle (of sb's life)年譜
谱分析 pǔ fēn xī spectral analysis (physics)譜分析

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