Pinyin Syllable

Chinese characters pronounced pou

Learn common Chinese characters pronounced pou, including 剖 pōu. Compare tones, meanings, traditional forms, words, and example sentences.

How to Pronounce This Syllable

To say pou, release air on the aspirated p, glide into ou, and ride the tone — keep it joined as one sound.

Start the syllable on the initial p, then run straight into the final ou — keep them joined instead of sounding out separate English letters.

Settle the final ou into a steady mouth shape first, then lay the tone on top.

Only one common character is read pou (剖 pōu) — focus on locking in its tone.

pou turns up here with 1 different tone; a change of tone usually means a different character, so the groups below are split by tone.

Taking the 1st tone here: 剖 (1 in total). Lock this tone in your ear before the meaning.

Seeing pou inside whole words makes it clear which character is meant — here are common ones.

1 common character in this group.