bāo
praise
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 褒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to praise | ||
to appraise | ||
commendatory sense | ||
to praise | ||
Baosi, concubine of King You of Zhou 周幽王[ZhōuYōuwáng] and one of the famous Chinese beauties |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pˤu | paw | bāo | praise (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3539th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+8912 |
Shuowen | “襃,衣博裾。从衣,省聲。,古文。” |
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