How to write 埠

埠 [bù] 名词 1. A dock or pier, a place close to water (also written as "步" in ancient texts). Example: 船已抵埠 (The boat has arrived at the dock). Related terms: 码头 (pier), 本埠 (this port), 外埠 (foreign port), 船埠 (boat dock). 2. An old term referring to cities that traded with foreign countries. Related terms: 开埠 (open port), 商埠 (commercial city). 【本义】: 停船的码头。如:船已抵埠 (The basic meaning: a dock for mooring ships. For example: The boat has arrived at the dock). 【造字法】: 形声。从土，阜声 (The method of character formation: it is a phono-semantic compound with 土 (earth) as the radical and 阜 (hill) as the phonetic component). 【引】: 1. 《篇海类编》：埠，见《大明律》，官牙埠头，船埠头。谓主舶客商买卖货物也。 (Reference: "Pian Hai Lei Bian": 「埠」 is mentioned in the "Great Ming Code", referring to official docks for ships where merchants buy and sell goods.) 2. 大城市 ([En.] big city). Example: 商埠 (commercial city). *引自繁体辞典解释 (Quoted from the Traditional Dictionary). （*之又音。）