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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
bó | bo2
English translation
radish; root vegetables

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Number of strokes

15

Traditional form

Contains the radical

cǎo

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

Vegetables  cǎo that are buried in the ground  also provides the pronunciation

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

艹匐

Explanation

Pictograph of a crack on a bone. In ancient China such cracks were used for divination.

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Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
胡萝卜 hú luó bo carrot胡蘿蔔
bo CL: tiáo | tiáo [tiáo]
萝卜 luó bo CL: tiáo | tiáo [tiáo]蘿蔔
占卜 zhān bǔ to divine占卜 zhān bǔ
胡萝卜素 hú luó bo sù carotene胡蘿蔔素
红萝卜 hóng luó bo carrot紅蘿蔔
阿卜杜拉 Ā bǔ dù lā Abdullah (name)阿卜杜拉 Ā bǔ dù lā
吉卜赛人 Jí bǔ sài rén Gypsy吉卜賽人
易卜生 Yì bǔ shēng Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian dramatist, author of Doll's House 玩偶之家 Wán ǒu zhī jiā 易卜生 Yì bǔ shēng
未卜 wèi bǔ not foreseen未卜 wèi bǔ
卜辞 bǔ cí oracle inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty (16th-11th century BC) on tortoiseshells or animal bones卜辭
未卜先知 wèi bǔ xiān zhī predictable未卜先知 wèi bǔ xiān zhī
小萝卜头 xiǎo luó bo tou (coll.) little kid小蘿蔔頭
卜卦 bǔ guà fortune telling卜卦 bǔ guà

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