伯 (bó)
father's elder brother/uncle (polite address for older men)
How 伯 is written
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 亻 — human
- Traditional
- 伯
- Simplified
- 伯 (unchanged)
Components
- 亻 human
- 白 white
伯 has 3 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- bà
- variant of 霸
- bǎi
- one hundred (old)
- bó
- father's elder brother; senior; paternal elder uncle; eldest of brothers
Common words using 伯
- 伯伯 bóbo
- father's elder brother; uncle
- 伯爵 bójué
- earl; count; earldom or countship (old)
- 大伯 dàbó
- husband's older brother; brother-in-law
- 阿拉伯 ālābó
- Arabian; Arabic; Arab
- 伯克利 bókèlì
- Berkeley
- 伯利恆 bólìhéng
- Bethlehem (in the biblical nativity story)
- 伯恩 bóēn
- Bern or Berne (Switzerland)
- 伯明翰 bómínghàn
- Birmingham
- 伯樂 bólè
- Bo Le (horse connoisseur during Spring and Autumn Period); a good judge of talent; talent scout
- 伯母 bómǔ
- wife of father's elder brother; aunt; (polite form of address for a woman who is about the age of one's mother)
- 伯父 bófù
- father's elder brother; term of respect for older man; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 伯爾尼 bóěrní
- Bern, capital of Switzerland
伯 in a sentence
王伯伯每天早上都會去公園打太極拳。
Wáng bóbo měitiān zǎoshàng dōu huì qù gōngyuán dǎ tàijíquán.
“Uncle Wang goes to the park to practice Tai Chi every morning.”
How common is 伯?
伯 is the 819th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 85.8% of all running text.
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