扑 pū
- Strokes
- 5
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Made of
- 扌 hand 卜 divination, fortune-telling
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
扑灭
pūmiè
to extinguish
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Example phrases
- 消防员花了两个小时才把大火扑灭。 Xiāofángyuán huā le liǎng gè xiǎoshí cái bǎ dàhuǒ pūmiè. It took the firefighters two hours to extinguish the fire.
- 大家一起动手，很快把山上的火扑灭了。 Dàjiā yìqǐ dòngshǒu, hěn kuài bǎ shān shang de huǒ pūmiè le. Everyone pitched in, and the fire on the hill was soon put out.
- 水桶里的水太少，根本扑灭不了这堆火。 Shuǐtǒng lǐ de shuǐ tài shǎo, gēnběn pūmiè bù liǎo zhè duī huǒ. There is too little water in the bucket to put out this fire at all.
Related words
- 扑 pū to pounce on
- 红扑扑 hóngpūpū rosy; flushed
- 扑克 pūkè playing cards; poker
- 扑面而来 pūmiàn'érlái to rush towards one's face; to come head-on; to be overwhelming
- 灭 miè to extinguish, to destroy
- 消灭 xiāomiè to annihilate
- 毁灭 huǐmiè to destroy; to annihilate
- 歼灭 jiānmiè to annihilate; to wipe out
- 灭绝 mièjué to become extinct; to exterminate
- 灭亡 mièwáng to perish; to collapse; to become extinct
- 破灭 pòmiè to be shattered; to be destroyed; to collapse
- 熄灭 xīmiè to go out; to extinguish