扑 撲
扑撲 in English
- to throw oneself at / to pounce on / to devote one's energies / to flap / to flutter / to dab / to pat / to bend over
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 撲, the traditional character: 扑 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Bronze script 西周晚期 -
Small seal script - See all 4 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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你很瞭解相扑。
You know quite a lot about sumo.
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我刚打开锅盖，一股恶臭就扑鼻而来。
I just opened the lid, and a foul smell filled my nose.
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把扑克牌放在橡木桌上。
Place the deck of cards on the oaken table.
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消防队员把火扑灭了。
The fire fighters put out the fire.
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消防队很快就把大火扑熄。
The firemen quickly extinguished the blaze.
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火马上就被扑熄了。
The fire was extinguished at once.
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相扑是日本传统的体育活动。
Sumo is the traditional sport of Japan.