Memory phrase for the character: 蒲

蒲

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Meaning

bullrush, divers reed grasses

Pronunciation

pú

Explanation

Top: growing plant 艹, below: river bank 浦 (water 氵, just now 甫(Image of upper body 甫 with shoulders 一 and chest 月 with spine 丨 and a harvesting tool 丶)

Mnemonic

The plant of the water that is harvested by a person (you only see his upper body), is the: reed grass.

Radicals

艹	grass, plant	Grass or a rapid growing plant in general. It shows two plants growing through the ground, and is a simple variation of 艸.
氵	water	Simplified from this water 水
甫	just, just now	Image of the upper body 甫 with shoulders 一 and chest 月 with spine 丨.

Vocabulary

菖蒲	chāng pú	Acorus calamus; sweet sedge or sweet flag
香蒲	xiāng pú	Typha orientalis; broadleaf cumbungi; bulrush; cattail
蒲鞋	pú xié	straw sandals
蒲鞋	pú xié

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