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Definitions

  1. 1. general
  2. 2. popular
  3. 3. everywhere
  4. 4. universal

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Words Containing 普

普莱斯
pǔ lái sī

Price (name)

普通䴓
pǔ tōng shī

(bird species of China) Eurasian nuthatch (Sitta europaea)

中元普渡
zhōng yuán pǔ dù

Ghosts' festival on 15th day of 7th moon

普法
pǔ fǎ

to disseminate knowledge of the law

博斯普鲁斯
bó sī pǔ lǔ sī

Bosphorus

普选权
pǔ xuǎn quán

universal suffrage

马克斯·普朗克
mǎ kè sī · pǔ lǎng kè

Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist who first postulated quantization of energy

普西
pǔ xī

psi (Greek letter Ψψ)

普度众生
pǔ dù zhòng shēng

(Buddhism) to deliver all living creatures from suffering (idiom)

普列谢茨克
pǔ liè xiè cí kè

Plesetsk, settlement in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia

旁遮普
páng zhē pǔ

Punjab state of India

普朗克
pǔ lǎng kè

Max Planck (1858-1947), German physicist

普宁
pǔ níng

Puning, county-level city in Jieyang 揭陽|揭阳, Guangdong

普加乔夫
pǔ jiā qiáo fū

Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachov (1742-1775), Russian Cossack, leader of peasant rebellion 1773-1775 against Catherine the Great

普通朱雀
pǔ tōng zhū què

(bird species of China) common rosefinch (Carpodacus erythrinus)

喜大普奔
xǐ dà pǔ bēn

(of news etc) so thrilling that everyone is rejoicing and spreading the word (Internet slang)

普林斯顿大学
pǔ lín sī dùn dà xué

Princeton University

波斯普鲁斯
bō sī pǔ lǔ sī

Bosphorus

阿普尔顿
ā pǔ ěr dùn

Appleton (name)

普通翠鸟
pǔ tōng cuì niǎo

(bird species of China) common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)

普林斯吨
pǔ lín sī dūn

Princeton, New Jersey

普鲁卡因
pǔ lǔ kǎ yīn

procaine (nerve blocking agent) (loanword)

普降
pǔ jiàng

precipitation over a large area

普拉
pǔ lā

Pula (city in Croatia)

普朗克常数
pǔ lǎng kè cháng shù

(physics) Planck's constant h, approximately 6.626 x 10⁻³⁴ joule.seconds

米哈伊尔·普罗霍罗夫
mǐ hā yī ěr · pǔ luó huò luó fū

Mikhail Prokhorov (1965-), Russian billionaire and owner of the Brooklyn Nets (NBA team)

普通老百姓
pǔ tōng lǎo bǎi xìng

common people

普雷克斯流程
pǔ léi kè sī liú chéng

purex

普适
pǔ shì

universal

普雷斯顿
pǔ léi sī dùn

Preston, city in England

普通高等学校招生全国统一考试
pǔ tōng gāo děng xué xiào zhāo shēng quán guó tǒng yī kǎo shì

NCEE, National College Entrance Examination (college entrance exam in PRC)

科普
kē pǔ

(attributive) popular science

普罗大众
pǔ luó dà zhòng

proletariat

普级
pǔ jí

(classification) general

拉普拉斯
lā pǔ lā sī

Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician

普吉
pǔ jí

Phuket (city in Thailand)

惠普
huì pǔ

Hewlett-Packard

普通燕鸥
pǔ tōng yàn ōu

(bird species of China) common tern (Sterna hirundo)

普定县
pǔ dìng xiàn

Puding county in Anshun 安順|安顺[ān shùn], Guizhou

兰坪白族普米族自治县
lán píng bái zú pǔ mǐ zú zì zhì xiàn

Lanping Bai and Pumi autonomous county in Nujiang Lisu autonomous prefecture 怒江傈僳族自治州[nù jiāng lì sù zú zì zhì zhōu] in northwest Yunnan

普安
pǔ ān

Puan county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔西南州[qián xī nán zhōu], Guizhou

普列谢茨克卫星发射场
pǔ liè xiè cí kè wèi xīng fā shè chǎng

Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia

夏普
xià pǔ

Sharp Corporation

普罗旺斯语
pǔ luó wàng sī yǔ

Provençal (language)

普通话
pǔ tōng huà

Mandarin (common language)

斯台普斯
sī tái pǔ sī

Staples (Center), sports arena in Los Angeles

南安普敦
nán ān pǔ dūn

Southampton, town in south England

查普曼
chá pǔ màn

Chapman (name)

哈普西科德
hā pǔ xī kē dé

harpsichord

普鲁斯特
pǔ lǔ sī tè

Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French author

普通赤杨
pǔ tōng chì yáng

alder tree (Alnus glutinosa)

约翰·厄普代克
yuē hàn · è pǔ dài kè

John Updike, US novelist (1932-2009), Pulitzer Prize winner

普鲁东
pǔ lǔ dōng

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), French socialist philosopher

普里什蒂纳
pǔ lǐ shí dì nà

Pristina, capital of Kosovo 科索沃

基普
jī pǔ

kip (Laotian currency)

爱普生
ài pǔ shēng

Epson, Japanese electronics company

标准普尔
biāo zhǔn pǔ ěr

Standard and Poor's (S&P), company specializing in financial market ratings

普通中学
pǔ tōng zhōng xué

general middle school

普氏野马
pǔ shì yě mǎ

Przevalski horse (Equus przewalskii) wild horse of Central Asia first identified in 1881 by Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普爾熱瓦爾斯基|普尔热瓦尔斯基

克里普斯
kè lǐ pǔ sī

Cripps (name)

南普陀寺
nán pǔ tuó sì

Nanputuo Temple in Xiamen 廈門|厦门[xià mén]

普通夜鹰
pǔ tōng yè yīng

(bird species of China) grey nightjar (Caprimulgus jotaka)

普陀
pǔ tuó

Putuo district of Zhoushan city 舟山市[zhōu shān shì], Zhejiang

普宁市
pǔ níng shì

Puning, county-level city in Jieyang 揭陽|揭阳, Guangdong

斯普林菲尔德
sī pǔ lín fēi ěr dé

Springfield

拉普兰
lā pǔ lán

Lapland (northern Europe)

普雷斯堡
pǔ léi sī bǎo

Pressburg (Slovakia)

普遍
pǔ biàn

universal

马普托
mǎ pǔ tuō

Maputo, capital of Mozambique

普林斯顿
pǔ lín sī dùn

Princeton, New Jersey

岳普湖县
yuè pǔ hú xiàn

Yopurgha nahiyisi (Yopurga county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[kā shí dì qū], west Xinjiang

普拉亚
pǔ lā yà

Praia, capital of Cape Verde

吉普斯夸
jí pǔ sī kuā

Gipuzkoa or Guipúzcoa, one of the seven Basque provinces in north Spain

特里普拉
tè lǐ pǔ lā

Tripura (Indian state)

斯特凡诺普洛斯
sī tè fán nuò pǔ luò sī

Stephanopoulos (e.g. former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos)

普氏立克次体
pǔ shì lì kè cì tǐ

Rickettsia prowazekii

阿卡普尔科
ā kǎ pǔ ěr kē

Acapulco, city in Mexico

贺普丁
hè pǔ dīng

Chinese brand name of Lamivudine 拉米夫定[lā mǐ fū dìng]

港普
gǎng pǔ

Hong Kong pidgin (a mix of Standard Mandarin and Cantonese)

普选
pǔ xuǎn

universal suffrage

斯普特尼克
sī pǔ tè ní kè

Sputnik, Soviet artificial Earth satellite

普通鸬鹚
pǔ tōng lú cí

(bird species of China) great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)

普通法
pǔ tōng fǎ

common law

普洱市
pǔ ěr shì

Pu'er, prefecture-level city in Yunnan

普法战争
pǔ fǎ zhàn zhēng

Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)

宇普西龙
yǔ pǔ xī lóng

upsilon (Greek letter Υυ)

伊普西隆
yī pǔ xī lóng

epsilon (Greek letter Εε)

普罗
pǔ luó

proletariat (loanword)

索普
suǒ pǔ

Thorpe (name)

普格县
pǔ gé xiàn

Puge county in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[liáng shān yí zú zì zhì zhōu], south Sichuan

普通角闪石
pǔ tōng jiǎo shǎn shí

hornblende (rock-forming mineral, type of amphibole)

斯科普里
sī kē pǔ lǐ

Skopje, capital of North Macedonia

标普
biāo pǔ

Standard and Poor (share index)

普尔热瓦尔斯基
pǔ ěr rè wǎ ěr sī jī

Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to Central Asian from 1870

普里切特
pǔ lǐ qiè tè

Pratchett (name)

普桑
pǔ sāng

a model of Volkswagen Santana based on the Passat B2

普通民众
pǔ tōng mín zhòng

ordinary people

旁遮普省
páng zhē pǔ shěng

Punjab province of Pakistan

普通问题
pǔ tōng wèn tí

common questions

北安普敦
běi ān pǔ dūn

Northampton, town in central England, county town of Northamptonshire 北安普敦郡[běi ān pǔ dūn jùn]

普兰店
pǔ lán diàn

Pulandian, county-level city in Dalian 大連|大连[dà lián], Liaoning

赞普
zàn pǔ

(hist.) title of the Tibetan Tufan ruler

普查
pǔ chá

census

普林斯吨大学
pǔ lín sī dūn dà xué

Princeton University

斯普利特
sī pǔ lì tè

Split (city in Croatia)

吉普
jí pǔ

Jeep (car brand)

辛普森
xīn pǔ sēn

Simpson (name)

人口普查
rén kǒu pǔ chá

census

埃尔维斯·普雷斯利
āi ěr wéi sī · pǔ léi sī lì

Elvis Presley (1935-1977), US pop singer and film star

普陀区
pǔ tuó qū

Putuo district, central Shanghai

普格
pǔ gé

Puge county in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[liáng shān yí zú zì zhì zhōu], south Sichuan

史普尼克
shǐ pǔ ní kè

Sputnik, Soviet artificial Earth satellite

普信男
pǔ xìn nán

(neologism c. 2020) an ordinary guy who imagines he is God's gift to womankind

普罗旺斯
pǔ luó wàng sī

Provence (south of France)

泽普县
zé pǔ xiàn

Poskam nahiyisi (Poskam county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[kā shí dì qū], west Xinjiang

普陀山
pǔ tuó shān

Mt Potala at Zhoushan 舟山市 in Zhejiang, one of the Four Sacred Mountains and Bodhimanda of Guanyin 觀音|观音 (Avalokiteśvara)

普世教会
pǔ shì jiào huì

ecumenical

普通楼燕
pǔ tōng lóu yàn

(bird species of China) common swift (Apus apus)

普氏小羚羊
pǔ shì xiǎo líng yáng

Przevalski's gazelle (Procapra przewalskii) of Central Asia

阿普吐龙
ā pǔ tǔ lóng

apatosaurus

普世
pǔ shì

ecumenical

普通秧鸡
pǔ tōng yāng jī

(bird species of China) brown-cheeked rail (Rallus indicus)

普兰店市
pǔ lán diàn shì

Pulandian, county-level city in Dalian 大連|大连[dà lián], Liaoning

瓜德罗普
guā dé luó pǔ

Guadeloupe

普罗米修斯
pǔ luó mǐ xiū sī

Prometheus, a Titan god of fire in Greek mythology

普赛
pǔ sài

psi (Greek letter Ψψ)

普拉达
pǔ lā dá

Prada (brand)

菲尔普斯
fēi ěr pǔ sī

Phelps (name)

普通话水平测试
pǔ tōng huà shuǐ píng cè shì

Putonghua Proficiency Test, an official test of spoken fluency in Standard Chinese for native speakers of Chinese languages, developed in the PRC in 1994

普希金
pǔ xī jīn

Alexandr Sergeevich Pushkin (1799-1837), great Russian romantic poet

开普勒
kāi pǔ lè

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German astronomer and formulator of Kepler's laws of planetary motion

普萘洛尔
pǔ nài luò ěr

propranolol (beta-blocker used to treat high blood pressure)

普密蓬·阿杜德
pǔ mì péng · ā dù dé

Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927-2016), king of Thailand 1946-2016

岳普湖
yuè pǔ hú

Yopurgha nahiyisi (Yopurga county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[kā shí dì qū], west Xinjiang

普遍性假设
pǔ biàn xìng jiǎ shè

universal hypothesis

普米族
pǔ mǐ zú

Pumi ethnic group

旁遮普邦
páng zhē pǔ bāng

Punjab state in northwest India bordering Pakistan

圣多美和普林西比
shèng duō měi hé pǔ lín xī bǐ

São Tomé and Príncipe

普世基督教
pǔ shì jī dū jiào

ecumenical

普天下
pǔ tiān xià

throughout the world

普安县
pǔ ān xiàn

Puan county in Qianxinan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔西南州[qián xī nán zhōu], Guizhou

普通股
pǔ tōng gǔ

common stock

普什图语
pǔ shí tú yǔ

Pashtu (one of the languages of Afghanistan)

广普
guǎng pǔ

Guangdong pidgin (a mix of Standard Mandarin and Cantonese)

普鲁东主义
pǔ lǔ dōng zhǔ yì

Proudhonism, 19th century socialist theory

普罗科菲夫
pǔ luó kē fēi fū

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Russian composer

普罗维登斯
pǔ luó wéi dēng sī

Providence, capital of Rhode Island

普罗夫迪夫
pǔ luó fū dí fū

Plovdiv, city in Bulgaria

普食
pǔ shí

(medicine) regular food

吉普赛人
jí pǔ sài rén

Gypsy

普罗列塔利亚
pǔ luó liè tǎ lì yà

proletariat (loanword)

普天同庆
pǔ tiān tóng qìng

everybody celebrating together

多普勒效应
duō pǔ lè xiào yìng

the Doppler effect

普通车
pǔ tōng chē

local train

普氏
pǔ shì

Nikolai Mikhailovich Przevalski 普爾熱瓦爾斯基|普尔热瓦尔斯基 (1839-1888), Russian explorer who made four expeditions to Central Asian from 1870

普罗扎克
pǔ luó zhā kè

Prozac (also marketed as Fluoxetine)

普通𫛭
pǔ tōng kuáng

(bird species of China) eastern buzzard (Buteo japonicus)

普洱哈尼族彝族自治县
pǔ ěr hā ní zú yí zú zì zhì xiàn

former Pu'er Hani and Yi autonomous county in Yunnan, renamed in 2007 Ning'er Hani and Yi autonomous county 寧洱哈尼族彞族自治縣|宁洱哈尼族彝族自治县, capital Pu'er city 普洱市

泽普
zé pǔ

Poskam nahiyisi (Poskam county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[kā shí dì qū], west Xinjiang

普通燕鸻
pǔ tōng yàn héng

(bird species of China) oriental pratincole (Glareola maldivarum)

普利司通
pǔ lì sī tōng

Bridgestone (tire company)

波斯普鲁斯海峡
bō sī pǔ lǔ sī hǎi xiá

the Bosphorus (strait)

普通教育
pǔ tōng jiào yù

general education

普契尼
pǔ qì ní

Puccini

普利茅斯
pǔ lì máo sī

Plymouth

普通秋沙鸭
pǔ tōng qiū shā yā

(bird species of China) common merganser (Mergus merganser)

普通潜鸟
pǔ tōng qián niǎo

(bird species of China) common loon (Gavia immer)

普通鹰鹃
pǔ tōng yīng juān

(bird species of China) common hawk-cuckoo (Hierococcyx varius)

塑料普通话
sù liào pǔ tōng huà

(coll.) Mandarin Chinese spoken with a thick regional accent

吉普车
jí pǔ chē

jeep (military vehicle) (loanword)

乌普萨拉
wū pǔ sà lā

Uppsala, Swedish university city just north of Stockholm

科普特语
kē pǔ tè yǔ

Coptic, Afro-Asiatic language of the Copts 科普特人[kē pǔ tè rén], spoken in Egypt until late 17th century

波普艺术
bō pǔ yì shù

pop art (loanword)

普渡大学
pǔ dù dà xué

Purdue University

普及
pǔ jí

to spread extensively

普遍化
pǔ biàn huà

generalization (logic)

普京
pǔ jīng

Vladimir Putin (1952-), president of Russia

普鲁士
pǔ lǔ shì

Prussia (historical German state)

普拉提
pǔ lā tí

Pilates (physical fitness system)

霍普金斯大学
huò pǔ jīn sī dà xué

Johns Hopkins University

安特卫普
ān tè wèi pǔ

Antwerp (city in Belgium)

普罗提诺
pǔ luó tí nuò

Plotinus (204-270), Neoplatonism philosopher

普洱
pǔ ěr

Pu'er, prefecture-level city in Yunnan

普贤
pǔ xián

Samantabhadra, the Buddhist Lord of Truth

多普达
duō pǔ dá

Dopod (company name)

中等普通教育
zhōng děng pǔ tōng jiào yù

general middle school education

特朗普
tè lǎng pǔ

Donald Trump (1946-), American business magnate, US president 2017-2021

普洱茶
pǔ ěr chá

Pu'er tea from the Pu'er region of Yunnan

普遍性
pǔ biàn xìng

ubiquity

普定
pǔ dìng

Puding county in Anshun 安順|安顺[ān shùn], Guizhou

普兰
pǔ lán

Burang county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Spu hreng rdzong

多普勒
duō pǔ lè

Christian Johann Doppler, Austrian physicist who discovered the Doppler effect

肯普索恩
kěn pǔ suǒ ēn

(Dirk) Kempthorne (US Senator from Idaho)

普兰县
pǔ lán xiàn

Burang county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Spu hreng rdzong

普遍理论
pǔ biàn lǐ lùn

universal hypothesis

普济众生
pǔ jì zhòng shēng

universal mercy and succor (idiom); the Buddha's infinite power and mercy

普利策奖
pǔ lì cè jiǎng

Pulitzer Prize

辛普森一家
xīn pǔ sēn yī jiā

The Simpsons (US TV series)

普照
pǔ zhào

(of the sunlight) to bathe all things

玉普西隆
yù pǔ xī lóng

upsilon (Greek letter Υυ)

汤普森
tāng pǔ sēn

Thompson (name)

科普特人
kē pǔ tè rén

the Copts, major ethnoreligious group of Egyptian Christians

普考
pǔ kǎo

examination for lower levels of Taiwan government service (short for 普通考試|普通考试[pǔ tōng kǎo shì])

普普通通
pǔ pǔ tōng tōng

ordinary

开普敦
kāi pǔ dūn

Cape Town (city in South Africa)

惠普公司
huì pǔ gōng sī

Hewlett-Packard

普通人
pǔ tōng rén

ordinary person

普通名词
pǔ tōng míng cí

common noun (grammar)

普拉提斯
pǔ lā tí sī

see 普拉提[pǔ lā tí]

普通
pǔ tōng

common

斯普拉特利群岛
sī pǔ lā tè lì qún dǎo

Spratly Islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam

科学普及
kē xué pǔ jí

popularization of science

普贤菩萨
pǔ xián pú sà

Samantabhadra, the Buddhist Lord of Truth

阳光普照
yáng guāng pǔ zhào

(idiom) sunlight shines over all things