bāo

womb

Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
⺼ meaning component

  Meaning component

ròu

  

meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of .

包 sound component

  Sound component

bāo

  

wrap

Evolution

胞 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
胞 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

bāo

womb, placenta, fetal membrane; placenta; womb; born of the same parents

Most common words with 胞
Freq.
Word
Meaning

细胞

cell (biology)

双胞胎

twin

同胞

sibling

干细胞

stem cell

womb

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤ<r>u

paew

bāo

womb


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 14.1278% of movies

1627th most common character in movies

1341st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+80DE

Shuowen

“胞,兒生裹也。从肉,从包。”


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