HSK 6 · Nature

瀑布 pùbù “waterfall” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 瀑布 means

  1. waterfall

How to say 瀑布

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale瀑pù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale布bù4th tone, falling

瀑布 in a sentence

  1. 我看见那儿有个很美的瀑布。

    Wǒ kànjiàn nàr yǒu ge hěn měi de pùbù.

    I saw a beautiful waterfall there.

    Sentence #335279 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 瀑布 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 瀑 (pù) with each of its parts in a different colour
瀑pùwaterfall
  • 氵water form of 水 · shuǐ
  • 暴violent · bào
The character 布 (bù) drawn as one shape
布bùto announce

布 is a single shape of 5 strokes. Learn it whole, then watch its stroke order below.

How to write 瀑布

瀑 18 strokes · 布 5 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

瀑布 (pùbù) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 瀑布 (pùbù). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 瀑布

Words with 布

布bù · cloth公布gōngbù · to announce宣布xuānbù · to declare分布fēnbù · to be distributed (over an area)遍布biànbù · to be found everywhere布置bùzhì · to arrange散布sànbù · to spread颁布bānbù · to promulgate布告bùgào · notice发布fābù · to release

More words: Nature & Environment

萌芽méngyá · to sprout棉花miánhua · cotton排放páifàng · to discharge品种pǐnzhǒng · variety晴朗qínglǎng · sunny气味qìwèi · smell气象qìxiàng · meteorology气压qìyā · air pressure

FAQs

瀑布 (pùbù) means “waterfall”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it pùbù: pù with a 4th tone, then bù with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 瀑布 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pubu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 瀑布 from the suggestions. Typing pubu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
瀑布 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.