潑 (pō)
To splash; to spill; lively.
How 潑 is written
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Traditional
- 潑
- Simplified
- 泼
Components
- 氵 water
- 癶 footsteps
- 弓 bow
- 殳 weapon/lance
Common words using 潑
- 活潑 huópo
- lively; vivacious; brisk
- 撒潑 sāpō
- to make an unreasonable scene
- 潑冷水 pōlěngshuǐ
- lit. to pour cold water on; fig. to dampen one's enthusiasm
- 潑婦 pōfù
- shrew; vixen
- 潑水 pōshuǐ
- to sprinkle; to spill water
- 潑水節 pōshuǐjié
- Songkran (Thai New Year)
- 潑辣 pōla
- shrewish; pungent; forceful
- 瓢潑 piáopō
- (of rain) pouring
- 潑水難收 pōshuǐnánshōu
- water once spilt cannot be retrieved (idiom); irreversible change
潑 in a sentence
那個小孩很活潑，大家都喜歡他。
Nàge xiǎohái hěn huópō, dàjiā dōu xǐhuān tā.
“That child is very lively; everyone likes him.”
How common is 潑?
潑 is the 2,322nd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 98.1% of all running text.
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