to throw oneself at / to pounce on / to devote one's energies / to flap / to flutter / to dab / to pat / to bend over

= + : Petra penguin (p-) flaps about outside the space station's entrance (Ø1) in an attempt to throw herself at the bone with feather attached (卜). However, Penelope poodle (-u1 sound) is quicker to the prize and pounces on the bone first using her toy claw (扌). It's hard to imagine why someone would devote one's energies (扑) towards such fruitless activities. Who could forecast (卜) what would happen next?

扑 character breakdown

surname Bu
(bound form) to divine / to forecast or estimate / (of a place to live etc) to choose

= + : Mnemonic symbol from "to divine" and the shape of the character: a voodoo staff.

Bruno Bear (bu-) tries to divine (卜) the future in the space station's living room (Ø3). He places a petal (丶) in the middle of the room as an offering and starts a magic ritual with his voodoo staff (卜). The staff transforms the petal into a dinosaur bone (丨). Bruno divines that the staff was trying to tell him that all things are mortal and must come to an end.
"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a toy claw.
see 蘿蔔|萝卜[luo2 bo5]

Characters with 扑 as component

扑 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 扑

poker (card game) / playing card / CL:副[fu4]
to counterattack / to come back after a defeat / to retrieve lost ground
(loanword) topology (math.) / topology of a network (computing)
to play cards / to play poker
to flutter / to flap
to swat / (of wings) to flap
see 撲朔迷離|扑朔迷离[pu1 shuo4 mi2 li2]
to kill / to cull
(onom.) fluttering or flapping of wings
to do sth repeatedly
Texas hold 'em (poker variant)

Sentences with 扑

扑 currently does not appear in any sentence.