溥

pǔ

尃 + 氵

Definitions

pǔ (adjective) extensive; pervading

Etymology

Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 尃 represents the sound.

Semantic: 氵 Phonetic: 尃

About

The character 溥 is a phono-semantic compound: 氵, the condensed form of 水 'water', anchors it in the domain of hydrology and bodies of liquid, while 尃 provides the sound. (尃 itself once meant 'to spread out', which serendipitously reinforces the character's expansive overtones.) Its earliest meaning described a vast, unbounded spread of water, limitless and pervasive. From this concrete image, the usage broadened to denote anything wide-ranging, universal, or all-embracing. In classical texts, 溥 frequently depicted the far-reaching grace or virtue of an emperor, an all-pervading moral force likened to a shoreless sea.

Etymology Hide

Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Seal Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Traditional Modern

Simplified Modern

Example Sentences Hide

我的同学叫刘溥。

Wǒ de tóngxué jiào Liú Pǔ.

My classmate is called Liu Pu.

溥仪是末代皇帝。

Pǔyí shì mòdài huángdì.

Puyi was the last emperor.

张溥教授来自北京。

Zhāng Pǔ jiàoshòu láizì Běijīng.

Professor Zhang Pu is from Beijing.

我们看了关于溥仪的电影。

Wǒmen kàn le guānyú Pǔyí de diànyǐng.

We watched a movie about Puyi.

溥儒的书法作品很受欢迎。

Pǔ Rú de shūfǎ zuòpǐn hěn shòu huānyíng.

Pu Ru's calligraphy works are very popular.

李溥写了一本关于历史的书。

Lǐ Pǔ xiě le yī běn guānyú lìshǐ de shū.

Li Pu wrote a book about history.

在博物馆里，我们看到了溥仪的用品。

Zài bówùguǎn lǐ, wǒmen kàn dào le Pǔyí de yòngpǐn.

In the museum, we saw Puyi's personal items.

通过阅读溥仪的自传，我深刻理解了那段历史。

Tōngguò yuèdú Pǔyí de zìzhuàn, wǒ shēnkè lǐjiě le nà duàn lìshǐ.

By reading Puyi's autobiography, I deeply understood that period of history.

Related Characters

Composed characters:

Component: 尃

Component: 氵

溥