bǔ
mend, patch
Phonosemantic compound. 衤 represents the meaning and 卜 represents the sound. Simplified form of 補.
Components
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Traditional script
ModernSimplified script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 补
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
to repair | ||
to compensate | ||
to replenish | ||
to complement | ||
subsidy |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 35.5598% of movies
1160th most common character in movies
944th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+8865 |
Sources
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