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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

浦: bay, creek

Also: inlet, gulf, beach, seacoast

JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

氵 carries the meaning · 甫 gives the sound

10 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

うらura · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 浦うらinlet
  • 津々浦々つつうらうらall over the country; throughout the land
  • 浦波うらなみ(seaside) breakers

Also read ホ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Imagine three raindrops falling—that's sanzui! Whenever you see these three dots on the left side of a kanji, think of water, liquids, or anything that flows.”
More in the 氵 water story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
氵

Also built on water (氵)

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甫

Also built on for the first time (甫)

浦 takes the 甫 family's reading, ホ (ho).

Also read ホ

13 kanji share this on'yomiAll 13

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
浦 bay · 氵
vs捕 catch · 扌
浦 has 氵 where 捕 has 扌.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · pǔ

Same form: 浦 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
浦 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
浦 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin pǔ most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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