bāo
womb
Phonosemantic compound. ⺼ represents the meaning and 包 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
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。” |
Sources
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