颇 pō rather
rather; quite; considerably
怎么记住“颇”: 皮 skin + 页 page = rather. Her skin turns pink while the girl reads page after page on the beach, and her mum says she looks rather red.
部件结构
颇 = 皮 skin + 页 page
- 皮 skin
- 页 page
Her skin turns pink while the girl reads page after page on the beach, and her mum says she looks rather red.
用法
- An adverb meaning 'quite/rather/considerably,' formal in tone: 颇有名气 (pō yǒu míngqì) quite famous, 颇为不满 (pō wéi bùmǎn) rather displeased.
- Written register - 颇 replaces spoken 很/挺 in essays and reports; 颇具 X (pō jù) = has a good deal of X.
- Note the fixed 颇为 (pōwéi) 'rather/quite so,' before adjectives.