Chinese Character Wiki
暴

bào

violent

Original meaning: 

expose to sun

Depicts two hands (共) laying out rice (米) to dry under the sun (日), representing the meaning "expose to sun", now written as 曝. The meaning later shifted to "expose", "injure", and "violent".

Components
日 iconic component

日  Iconic component

rì

  

sun

共 iconic component

共  Iconic component

gòng

  

together with

Depicts two hands.

米 iconic component

米  Iconic component

mǐ

  

rice

Evolution

暴 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
暴 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
暴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
暴 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

暴  

bào

violent, brutal, tyrannical; sudden; violent; cruel; to show or expose; to injure

暴  

Bào

surname Bao

Most common words with 暴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

暴力

violence

暴露

to expose

暴

sudden

风暴

storm

暴雨

rainstorm

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

瀑

Sound component in 3 characters (2 verified)

爆 曝 瀑

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ˤawk-s

bawH

bào

violent

*m-pˤawk

buwk

pù

expose to sun


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 43.9692% of movies

932nd most common character in movies

1028th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+66B4

Shuowen

“曓，疾有所趣也。从日出廾之。”


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