剝 (bāo)
to peel/to shell
How 剝 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 彑 — pig snout
- Traditional
- 剝
- Simplified
- 剥
Components
- 彑 pig snout
- 氺 water
- 刂 knife
剝 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- bāo
- to peel; to skin; to shell; to shuck
- bō
- to peel; to skin; to flay; to shuck
Common words using 剝
- 剝奪 bōduó
- to deprive; to expropriate; to strip (sb of his property)
- 剝削 bōxuē
- to exploit; exploitation
- 剝掉 bōdiào
- pare
- 剝皮 bāopí
- to skin; to flay; to excoriate
- 剝落 bōluò
- to peel off
- 剝離 bōlí
- to peel; to strip; to peel off
- 剝削者 bōxuēzhě
- exploiter (of labor)
- 剝蝕 bōshí
- to corrode; to expose by corrosion (geology)
- 生吞活剝 shēngtūnhuóbō
- to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically
- 盤剝 pánbō
- to exploit; to practice usury
剝 in a sentence
吃橘子要先剝皮。
Chī júzi yào xiān bāopí.
“You have to peel the skin first to eat a tangerine.”
How common is 剝?
剝 is the 1,956th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 97% of all running text.
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