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bāo

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bāo Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
bāo | bao1
English translation
to cite; to honor, to praise; to recommend

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About bāo

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Number of strokes

15

Traditional form

bāo

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Verb / 动词 dòng cí Dòngcí

Learning hint

clothes

Etymology of bāo

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

衣保

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

Bǎo

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Example sentences using bāo

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chú le 81 tiáo 正面 zhèng miàn 评价 píngjià 之外 zhī wài yǒu 26 wèi 学生 xuésheng de 观点 guāndiǎn huò 中立 zhōnglì huò 褒贬 bāo biǎn 参半 cān bàn huò 负面 fù miàn 甚或 shèn huò páo le

In addition to the 81 positive comments, 26 students had neutral, mixed, negative or off topic views.

Words with bāo

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
bāo to praise bāo
褒贬 bāo biǎn to appraise褒貶
褒义 bāo yì commendatory sense褒義
褒扬 bāo yáng to praise褒揚
褒姒 Bāo sì Baosi, concubine of King You of Zhou 周幽王 Zhōu Yōu wáng [Zhōu​Yōu​wáng] and one of the famous Chinese beauties褒姒 Bāo sì
褒禅山 Bāo chán Shān Mt Baochan in Anhui褒禪山
贬多于褒 biǎn duō yú bāo to get more criticism than praise貶多於褒
褒忠乡 Bāo zhōng xiāng Baozhong or Paochung township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县 Yún lín xiàn [Yún​lín​xiàn], Taiwan褒忠鄉
一字褒贬 yī zì bāo biǎn concise and powerful style一字褒貶

bāo Decomposition & Compounds

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