bào
abalone
Phonosemantic compound. 魚 represents the meaning and 包 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Mid Spring and Autumn (~600 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 鮑
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
surname Bao | ||
Powell (name) | ||
abalone | ||
János Bolyai (1802-1860), one of the discoverers of non-Euclidean geometry | ||
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。” |
Sources
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