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舖 meaning and stroke order

pù

Store, shop; bunk, bed

15 strokesRadical 舌Simplified 铺
Strokes15
Pinyinpù
ToneTone 4
Frequency#5,400
Printable worksheet

How to write 舖, stroke by stroke

15 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.

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Meaning of 舖

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.

pùfourth tone (falling)
  1. variant of 鋪|铺[pu4]
  2. store

How 舖 is built

Phono-semantic (sound + meaning) character. House.

shěhouse+fǔto begin

舍 gives the meaning and 甫 hints at the sound.

Radical: 舌 (tongue), shared by 8 characters on this site.

How to remember 舖

On the left is 舍 (shè), a house or lodging, and on the right is 甫 (fǔ), which gives the sound. Picture a house where goods are laid out for sale, and you have a shop, 舖 (pù).

舖 is a variant form of 铺 (pù) in the sense of a store or a bed, and you mostly see it in Hong Kong and Taiwan signage and older texts. In mainland simplified Chinese, people write 铺 instead. Example: 这家店舖很老。 (Zhè jiā diànpù hěn lǎo.) This shop is very old.

Common mistake: Learners often read 舖 as pū, the first-tone verb meaning to spread out. In the noun senses of shop or bunk it is fourth tone, pù, as in 店舖 (diànpù) and 床舖 (chuángpù).

舖 in example sentences

Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.

肯kěn每měi天tiān早zǎo上shàng自zì己jǐ整zhěng理lǐ床chuáng舖pù。
Ken makes his own bed every morning.
小xiǎo路lù上shàng舖pù满mǎn了le落luò叶yè。
Leaves lay thick in the lane.
山shān中zhōng的de小xiǎo径jìng舖pù满mǎn了le柔róu软ruǎn的de落luò叶yè，十shí分fēn好hǎo走zǒu。
The mountain path was under a blanket of leaves, soft and easy to walk on.

Questions about 舖

How many strokes are in 舖?

舖 is written with 15 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.

What does 舖 mean?

舖 (pù) means store, shop; bunk, bed.

How do you pronounce 舖?

舖 is pronounced pù, in the fourth tone (falling).

What is the radical of 舖?

The radical of 舖 is 舌, which carries the idea of "tongue". Dictionaries list 舖 under this radical.

What is the simplified form of 舖?

舖 is a traditional character. Its simplified form is 铺, used in mainland China and Singapore.

What is the difference between 舖 and 鋪?

Both are traditional forms for the noun pù meaning shop or bed, and 鋪 is the more standard one. 舖 is a variant you still see on shop signs, especially in Hong Kong. Both correspond to simplified 铺.

How do you say bunk bed with this character?

A bunk on a train or in a dorm is 舖位 or 铺位 (pùwèi). The upper bunk is 上舖 (shàngpù) and the lower bunk is 下舖 (xiàpù).