bào

abalone

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
魚 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

fish

包 sound component

  Sound component

bāo

  

wrap

Evolution

鮑 Bronze script Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)
鮑 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
鮑 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
鮑 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

bào

abalone; dried fish; surname

() 

Bào

surname Bao

Most common words with 鮑
Freq.
Word
Meaning

surname Bao

鲍威尔

Powell (name)

鲍鱼

abalone

鲍耶

János Bolyai (1802-1860), one of the discoverers of non-Euclidean geometry

鲍罗廷

Borodin (name)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 6.9838% of movies

1240th most common character in movies

2073rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Simplified

Unicode

U+9B91

Shuowen

“鮑,饐魚也。从魚,包聲。”


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