撲
pū HSK6

to beat

扑 撲 pū
to beat verb
to strike, beat, or brush away (dust, snow, etc.)
to throw oneself at verb
to throw oneself at; to pounce on; to rush toward a target; to bend or lean over a surface

她突然向我扑来。

tā tū​rán xiàng wǒ pū lái.

She suddenly lunged at me.

to pat verb
to tap, pat, or flap; to dab or apply powder to the face
to devote oneself to
to throw all of one's energy into a task or cause
to assault the senses
(of a smell, wind, etc.) to blow against one's face or rush toward one's nose
to catch
to capture, catch, or seize, such as when catching butterflies or insects
applicator
(bound form) a tool used for patting or wiping, such as a powder puff or a rug beater
to sacrifice
in the game of Go, a move involving a deliberate sacrifice of stones to capture a larger number of the opponent's stones
surname
a Chinese surname
birch
(archaic) a rod or switch used for corporal punishment
to gamble
(archaic) to gamble by tossing coins on the ground; to bet
to steal
(slang) to steal; to snatch

Cross-References

Same as

Has old variant

Has erhua variant

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,509th most common 71.0 per million
Movie subtitles
1,971st most common 20.3 per million appears in 10% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
8.82 per million appears in 4% of films
Written text
36.6 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Simplified
扑
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+64B2

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)