bào
crackle
Phonosemantic compound. 火 represents the meaning and 暴 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 爆
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
explosion | ||
to explode or burst | ||
to break out | ||
to ignite | ||
popular |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pˤrawk-s | paewH | bào | explode (not pre-Qín) |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 35.4477% of movies
930th most common character in movies
1243rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 19 |
Unicode | U+7206 |
Shuowen | “爆，灼也。从火，暴聲。” |
Sources
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