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Mandarin
Romanization
pú (pu2, Zhuyin ㄆㄨˊ)
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 仆
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 僕 / 仆
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 匍
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 圤
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 墣
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 扴
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 朲
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 樸 / 朴
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 檌
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 毞
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 濬
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 獛
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 璞
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 瞨
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 穙
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 箁
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 纀 / 𰬿
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 脭
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 苻
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荾
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 菐
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 菩
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 葡
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蒱
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蒲
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 襆 / 幞
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 襥
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蹼
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 轐 / 𫐗
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 酺
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 醪
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鏷 / 镤
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 镤
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㒒
Nheengatu
Etymology
Inherited from Old Tupi pó, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *po, from Proto-Tupian *po.[1][2]
Noun
pú (plural pú-itá)
- hand
Derived terms
Numeral
pú
- five
Usage notes
Pú is mainly used in compounds. Yepé-pú is more common when refering to the number.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, pages 566–567
- ^ Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “pú”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, pages 627–628