Memory phrase for the character: 扑

扑

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Meaning

to throw oneself at, to pounce on, devote one's energies

Pronunciation

 pū

Explanation

 Left: hand 扌, right: forking of a way 卜

Mnemonic
 
If your hand is at the fork of a way, you can throw yourself in the right direction.

Radicals

扌 handSimplification of this hand 手
卜 oracle, mysticismThis radical is considered to be a simplification of: fortune telling 占 (crack 卜 in the shell 口 of a turtle from which the fortune was told.). Sometimes it is read as a forking of a road.
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 Vocabulary

拓扑 tuò pū  topology (math.); topology of a network (elec.)
飞蛾扑火 fēi é pū huǒ  the moth flies into the flame; fatal attraction
飞蛾扑火 fēi é pū huǒ  

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