普
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general; popular; everywhere; universal
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Dict coverage rank #305 U+666E
How 普 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
Everyone 並 under the sun 日
How to remember it
universal · Heisig RSH #1348
side by side + sun
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 普 as their sound component
These characters all use 普 (pǔ) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 普 sound component | pǔ | widespread, universal, general |
| 谱 | pǔ | chart, list, table; spectrum; musical score |
| 潽 | pū | to boil over |
| 氆 | pǔ | thick rough serge from Tibet |
| 镨 | pǔ | praseodymium |
Words containing 普
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拉普拉斯 | Lā pǔ lā sī | Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician |
| 普通中学 | pǔ tōng zhōng xué | general middle school |
| 克里普斯 | Kè lǐ pǔ sī | Cripps (name); Sir Stafford Cripps (1889-1952), UK socialist politician |
| 斯普利特 | Sī pǔ lì tè | Split (city in Croatia) |
| 普天之下 | pǔ tiān zhī xià | (idiom) all under heaven; in the whole world; throughout the world |
| 斯台普斯 | Sī tái pǔ sī | Staples (Center), sports arena in Los Angeles |
| 普通高中 | pǔ tōng gāo zhōng | general academic senior high school (as opposed to vocational high schools) |
| 普安县 | Pǔ ān Xiàn | Pu'an, a county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 黔西南布依族苗族自治州[Qian2 xi1 na… |
| 特里普拉 | Tè lǐ pǔ lā | Tripura (Indian state) |
| 斯普特尼克 | Sī pǔ tè ní kè | Sputnik, Soviet artificial Earth satellite |
| 普天下 | pǔ tiān xià | throughout the world |
| 科普特人 | Kē pǔ tè rén | the Copts, major ethnoreligious group of Egyptian Christians |
| 普通人 | pǔ tōng rén | ordinary person; private citizen; people; the person in the street |
| 斯科普里 | Sī kē pǔ lǐ | Skopje, capital of North Macedonia |
| 普拉亚 | Pǔ lā yà | Praia, capital of Cape Verde |
| 普定县 | Pǔ dìng Xiàn | Puding, a county in Anshun City 安順市|安顺市[An1 shun4 Shi4], Guizhou |
| 普布斯 | pǔ bù sī | Tillandsia pueblensis, a species of air plants |
| 科普特语 | Kē pǔ tè yǔ | Coptic, Afro-Asiatic language of the Copts 科普特人[Ke1 pu3 te4 ren2], spoken in Egypt until l… |
| 普通法 | pǔ tōng fǎ | common law |
| 阿卡普尔科 | Ā kǎ pǔ ěr kē | Acapulco, city in Mexico |