堡 (bǎo)
Fort; castle; burger (loanword).
How 堡 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 亻 — human
- Traditional
- 堡
- Simplified
- 堡 (unchanged)
堡 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- bǎo
- an earthwork; castle; position of defense; stronghold
- pù
- variant of 鋪|铺; used in place names
Common words using 堡
- 城堡 chéngbǎo
- castle; rook (chess piece)
- 漢堡 hànbǎo
- hamburger (loanword); Hamburg (German city)
- 碉堡 diāobǎo
- pillbox (military fortification); blockhouse
- 古堡 gǔbǎo
- ancient castle
- 堡壘 bǎolěi
- fort
- 大堡礁 dàbǎojiāo
- Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
- 愛丁堡 àidīngbǎo
- Edinburgh, capital of Scotland
- 漢堡包 hànbǎobāo
- hamburger
- 漢堡王 hànbǎowáng
- Burger King (fast food restaurant)
- 盧森堡 lúsēnbǎo
- Luxembourg
- 聖彼得堡 shèngbǐdébǎo
- Saint Petersburg (city in Russia)
- 伊斯蘭堡 yīsīlánbǎo
- Islamabad, capital of Pakistan
堡 in a sentence
我午餐想吃漢堡。
Wǒ wǔcān xiǎng chī hànbǎo.
“I want to eat a hamburger for lunch.”
How common is 堡?
堡 is the 1,519th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 94.7% of all running text.
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