bō, bāo
peel
Phonosemantic compound. 刂 represents the meaning and 彔 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 剝
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to peel | ||
to deprive | ||
to exploit | ||
to peel | ||
to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[p]ˤrok (~ *mə-pˤrok) | paewk | bō | flay, peel |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 8.3133% of movies
2126th most common character in movies
1959th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+525D |
Shuowen | “剝，裂也。从刀，从彔。彔，刻割也。彔亦聲。，剝或从卜。” |
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