抱 (bào)
to hug; to hold in arms
How 抱 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Traditional
- 抱
- Simplified
- 抱 (unchanged)
Components
- 扌 hand
- 勹 wrap
- 巳 oneself
Common words using 抱
- 擁抱 yōngbào
- to embrace; to hug
- 懷抱 huáibào
- to hug; to cherish; within the bosom (of the family)
- 抱怨 bàoyuàn
- to complain; to grumble
- 抱抱 bàobào
- to hug; to embrace
- 抱枕 bàozhěn
- bolster; a long pillow or cushion
- 抱歉 bàoqiàn
- to be sorry; to feel apologetic; sorry!
- 合抱 hébào
- to wrap one's arm around (used to describe the girth of a tree trunk)
- 打抱不平 dǎbàobùpíng
- to come to the aid of sb suffering an injustice; to fight for justice; also written 抱打不平[bao4 da3 bu4 ping2]
- 抱不平 bàobùpíng
- be outraged by an injustice
- 抱佛腳 bàofójiǎo
- lit. to clasp the Buddha's feet (without ever having burned incense) (idiom); fig. to profess devotion only when in trouble; panic measures in place of timely preparation
- 抱定 bàodìng
- to hold on firmly; to cling (to a belief); stubbornly
- 抱屈 bàoqū
- feel wronged
抱 in a sentence
媽媽抱著剛出生的嬰兒。
Māma bàozhe gāng chūshēng de yīng'ér.
“The mother is holding her newborn baby.”
How common is 抱?
抱 is the 1,120th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 90.9% of all running text.
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