Chinese Character Wiki

柏

bǎi, bó, bò

cypress

Phonosemantic compound. 木 represents the meaning and 白 represents the sound. Simplified form of 栢.

Components
木 meaning component

木  Meaning component

mù

  

tree

白 sound component

白  Sound component

bái

  

white

Evolution

柏 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
柏 Bronze script Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
柏 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
柏 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
柏 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

柏  

bǎi

cypress, cedar; cedar; cypress; Taiwan pr. [bó]

柏  

Bǎi

surname Bai; Taiwan pr. [Bó]

柏  

bó

(used for transcribing names)

柏  

bò

variant of 檗[bò]

柏 (栢) 

bǎi

variant of 柏[bǎi]

Most common words with 柏
Freq.
Word
Meaning

柏林

Berlin, capital of Germany

柏

cedar

张柏芝

Cecilia Cheung (1980-), Hong Kong actress and pop singer

柏拉图

Plato (c. 427-c. 347 BC), Greek philosopher

都柏林

Dublin, capital of Ireland

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤrak

paek

bǎi

cypress


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.7275% of movies

1768th most common character in movies

1596th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+67CF

Shuowen

“柏，鞠也。从木，白聲。”


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