菩 pú herb
herb; aromatic plant
怎么记住“菩”: 艹 grass + 咅 spit = herb. The little boy has to spit out the leaf from the grass that Grandpa praised as a healthy herb.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
菩 = 艹 grass + 咅 spit
- 艹 grass meaning
- 咅 spit sound
The little boy has to spit out the leaf from the grass that Grandpa praised as a healthy herb.
How it came to be
Grass gives the meaning and the lower part the sound; the word first named a plant.
用法
- A pure transliteration character (from Sanskrit bodhi) with no standalone meaning. It lives almost entirely in 菩萨 (púsà, bodhisattva).
- Also 菩提 (pútí, bodhi/enlightenment), as in 菩提树 (pútíshù) the Bodhi tree. Never used alone.