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bào

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bào Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
bào | bao4
English translation
abalone; dried fish; surname

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About bào

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Number of strokes

16

Traditional form

bào

Contains the radical

Part of speech

Non-morpheme / 非语素字 Fēi yǔsù zì

Learning hint

fish

Etymology of bào

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

魚包

Semantic compound

Phonetic compound

Bāo

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and Bāo represents the sound. Simplified form of bào .

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Words with bào

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
bào surname Bao bào
鲍威尔 Bào wēi ěr Powell (name)鮑威爾
鲍鱼 bào yú abalone鮑魚
鲍耶 Bào yē János Bolyai (1802-1860), one of the discoverers of non-Euclidean geometry鮑耶
鲍罗廷 Bào luó tíng Borodin (name)鮑羅廷

bào Decomposition & Compounds

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