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蒲

Cantonese · source Jyutpingpou4#

(verb) hang out and night out (with friends in bars, clubs, etc. and for loafing about)

Cantonese · source Jyutpingbok6#

part of a place name

Cantonese · source Jyutpingpou4#

refers to various monocotyledonous flowering plants including Acorus calamus and Typha orientalis
common cattail
bullrush
a surname
to hang out
to bum around
to loaf about
to party hard
to linger around at a place to kill time
to be a member of a gang looking for trouble or opportunities to make money
to be on the streets

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Source definition segments, in their original order. Characters a definition cites are shown without their Mandarin pinyin; classifier lists that CC-Canto copied from CC-CEDICT are marked Mandarin. The community dictionary is not independently verified by zimai.

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Reading & tones

pou44 · low falling

bok66 · low levelchecked · -k

Schematic citation-tone diagrams from the source numbers. These are not recordings or predictions of connected speech.

Same syllable, six tones

pou潽pou1普pou2general 铺pou3shop 葡pou4grape 泡pou5bubblepou6—

Characters whose customary Unihan reading (kCantonese) is this syllable in each tone, chosen as in the tone atlas (2013 standard level, then the number of CC-CEDICT words they form), with CC-Canto 2017's meaning for that reading; a dash means no catalogue character has that reading. Checked syllables (-p, -t, -k) normally carry tones 1, 3 and 6. Character readings, not word readings; no frequency implied.

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Written characters

蒲

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Mandarin comparison · separate source entries

CC-CEDICT, the Mandarin–English dictionary, lists the same written form:

蒲 Pú CC-CEDICT · Mandarinsurname Pu; old place name
蒲 pú CC-CEDICT · Mandarinrefers to various monocotyledonous flowering plants including Acorus calamus and Typha orientalis; common cattail; bullrush

A separate source entry, shown for comparison. The same characters can carry different senses in Mandarin and in Cantonese; zimai does not align these senses.

CC-Canto includes this pinyin reference: pu2. It does not establish a Mandarin word with the same meaning.

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