扑通撲通 in English

Character breakdown

• 扑撲 pū to throw oneself at
• 通 tōng to go through

How it used to be written

扑

These are the forms of 撲, the traditional character: 扑 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

• Bronze script 西周晚期
• Small seal script
• See all 4 forms

通

• Oracle bone script 商
• Clerical script 東漢
• See all 17 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

• 他扑通一声掉进了水里。

  He fell into the water with a splosh.

All example sentences with 扑通