Memory phrase for the character: 仆

仆

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Meaning

servant, to fall prostrate

Pronunciation

pū, pú

Explanation

 Left: person 亻, right: oracle, forking road 卜

Mnemonic
 
The person who prostrates himself from the standing 丨 forward 丶 is the servant.

Radicals

亻 personThis radical is understood as an identical variant of "person" 人, and shows a person who stands with the legs apart. - This radical has several variation, i.e. a lying person , a sitting 匕 person.
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.




 Vocabulary

奴仆 nú pú  servant
公仆 gōng pú  public servant
仆人 pú rén  servant
仆人 pú rén  

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