谱 (pǔ): chart, list, table
谱 (pǔ) is a Chinese character meaning “chart.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 讠 (semantic) and 普 (phonetic). It ranks #2218 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 谱 speech. Its radical form 讠 (speech) appears in many related characters such as 认 (rèn, to recognize, to admit), 记 (jì, to remember, to record), 识 (shí, to know, knowledge).
Definitions
- chart
- list
- table
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 离谱verb | lí pǔ | inappropriate |
| 食谱noun | shí pǔ | cookbook |
| 乐谱noun | yuè pǔ | a musical score |
| 菜谱noun | cài pǔ | menu (in restaurant) |
| 光谱noun | guāng pǔ | spectrum |
| 质谱仪 | zhì pǔ yí | mass spectrometer |
| 家谱noun | jiā pǔ | genealogy |
| 图谱noun | tú pǔ | archive of graphics (e.g. maps, documents or botanical figures) |
| 谱写verb | pǔ xiě | to compose (a piece of music) |
| 没谱verb | méi pǔ | to be clueless |
| 光谱仪noun | guāng pǔ yí | spectrometer |
| 族谱noun | zú pǔ | genealogical record |
| 谱曲verb | pǔ qǔ | to compose a piece of music |
| 谱子noun | pǔ zi | musical score |
| 脸谱noun | liǎn pǔ | types of facial makeup in operas |
谱 appears in 65 compound words: 18 as the first character, 62 as the last, and 20 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 谱 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Example Sentences
请谱细阅读合同条款，再签字确认。
qǐng pǔ xì yuè dòu gě tóng tiáo kuǎn , zài qiān zì què rèn .
Please carefully review the contract terms before signing to confirm.
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wò tè shì tuī chū xīn yī dài wēi liú yè xiāng sè pǔ zhù , píng 藉 M a x P e a k P r e m i e r . . .
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...uaries by Song Saa”共谱疗愈之旅
. . . u a r i e s b y S o n g S a a gòng pǔ liáo yù zhī lǚ
... uaries by Song Saa" to compose a healing journey
无糖食品店靠谱吗?线下专营店比网购更可信吗
wú táng shí pǐn diàn kào pǔ ma ? xiàn xià zhuān yíng diàn bǐ wǎng gòu gēng kě xìn ma
Are sugar free food stores reliable? Is offline franchise store more credible than online shopping?
智谱认GLM-5大模型犯三错误
zhì pǔ rèn G L M 5 dà mó xíng fàn sān cuò wù
Zhipu recognizes that the GLM-5 model made three mistakes
她不靠谱因为她经常说谎。
Tā bù kàopǔ yīnwèi tā jīngcháng shuōhuǎng.
She cannot be relied on because she often tells lies.
对汤姆来说一切都开始错得离谱。
Duì Tāngmǔ lái shuō yīqiè dōu kāishǐ cuò de lípǔ.
Everything is going horribly wrong for Tom.
这是我奶奶的食谱。
Zhè shì wǒ nǎinaide shípǔ.
This recipe is my grandmother's.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the 讠 (speech) component
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