(bào)

HSK 615 strokes
Readingsbào

surname Bao

Stroke order animation

Character information

Pinyin
bào / pù
Meaning
surname Bao
Strokes
15
HSK level
HSK 6
Traditional
Same

Origin & structure

Where comes from and how its parts fit together.

Ideograph⿱日⿱共水

A man with head 日 and hands 共 tormenting a deer 水

A combination of parts whose meanings add up to the whole.

Made of

Parts are arranged top to bottom.

How to write step by step

15 strokes — each frame adds one stroke, shown in dark ink over the lighter ones.

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Words with

Common words using — tap any character to open its stroke-order page.

bào
HSK 6

violence

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bào
HSK 7-9

sudden huge profits

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jiābào

domestic violence (abbr. for 家庭暴力[jia1 ting2 bao4 li4])

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variant of 一曝十寒[yi1 pu4 shi2 han2]

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bàozhìbào

to use violence to curb violence

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bàobào

to replace one tyranny by another

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