báo, bó, bò
thin, slight
Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 溥 represents the sound.
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]ˤak | bak | bó | thin |
Statistics
HSK level 4
Appears in 17.6998% of movies
1629th most common character in movies
1433rd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 16 |
Unicode | U+8584 |
Shuowen | “薄,林薄也。一曰蠶薄。从艸,溥聲。” |
Sources
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