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朴
樸
pǔ
1. plain and simple
2. Taiwan pr. <pú>
Very Common • Top 5% ✏️ 6 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

朴
pǔ
plain, simple; sincere; surname
HSK 6 6 丶

Compound Words (20)

俭朴
jiǎnpǔ
plain and unadorned
曾朴
ZēngPǔ
Zheng Pu (1872-1935), novelist and publisher
朴子
Púzǐ
Puzi or Putzu City in Chiayi County [[嘉義縣|嘉义县<Jiāyìxiàn>]], west Taiwan
朴实
pǔshí
plain
HSK 6
朴素
pǔsù
plain and simple
HSK 6
淳朴
chúnpǔ
simple and honest
白朴
BáiPǔ
Bai Pu (1226-1306), Yuan dynasty dramatist in the [[雜劇|杂剧]] tradition of musical comedy, one of the Four Great Yuan dramatists [[元曲四大家]]
简朴
jiǎnpǔ
simple and unadorned
纯朴
chúnpǔ
variant of [[淳樸|淳朴<chúnpǔ>]]
诚朴
chéngpǔ
simple and sincere
质朴
zhìpǔ
simple
勤朴
qínpǔ
simple and industrious
古朴
gǔpǔ
simple and unadorned (of art, architecture etc)
拙朴
zhuōpǔ
austere
朴子市
PúzǐShì
Puzi or Putzu City in Chiayi County [[嘉義縣|嘉义县<Jiāyìxiàn>]], west Taiwan
抱朴子
Bàopǔzǐ
Baopuzi, collection of essays by Ge Hong [[葛洪<GěHóng>]] on alchemy, immortality, legalism, society etc
李公朴
LǐGōngpǔ
Li Gongpu (-1946), communist killed by Guomindang in Kunming in 1946
勤俭朴实
qínjiǎnpǔshí
hardworking, thrifty, plain, and honest (idiom)
勤俭朴素
qínjiǎnpǔsù
hardworking, thrifty, plain, and simple (idiom)
朴次茅斯
Pǔcìmáosī
Portsmouth, southern English seaport

Alternate Entries

朴
Piáo
surname Piao / Korean surname 박 (Park, Pak, or Bak) / also pr. <Pú>
朴
pò
Celtis sinensis var. japonica

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
6
Character Frequency Rank
2,091
Word Frequency Rank
3,904 of 84,292