柏 (bǎi)
cypress; cedar
How 柏 is written
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- Traditional
- 柏
- Simplified
- 柏 (unchanged)
柏 has 3 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- bǎi
- surname Bai; Taiwan pr. [Bo2]
- bó
- (used for transcribing names)
- bò
- variant of 檗[bo4]
Common words using 柏
- 柏拉圖 bólātú
- Plato (c. 427-c. 347 BC), Greek philosopher
- 柏林 bólín
- Berlin, capital of Germany
- 松柏 sōngbǎi
- pine and cypress; fig. chaste and undefiled; fig. tomb
- 柏悅 bóyuè
- Park Hyatt (hotel brand)
- 柏林牆 bólínqiáng
- Berlin Wall
- 柏樹 bǎishù
- cypress tree; Taiwan pr. [bo2 shu4]
- 都柏林 dūbólín
- Dublin, capital of Ireland
- 柏油 bǎiyóu
- asphalt; tar; pitch
- 柏油路 bǎiyóulù
- tarred road; asphalt road
- 柏鄉 bǎixiāng
- Baixiang county in Xingtai 邢台[Xing2 tai2], Hebei
- 桐柏 tóngbǎi
- Tongbai county in Nanyang 南陽|南阳[Nan2 yang2], Henan
- 桐柏山 tóngbǎishān
- Tongbai mountain range, the watershed between Huai 淮河 and Han 漢江|汉江 rivers
柏 in a sentence
這條柏油路剛鋪好，很平。
Zhè tiáo bǎiyóulù gāng pūhǎo, hěn píng.
“This asphalt road was just paved; it's very smooth.”
How common is 柏?
柏 is the 1,594th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 95.2% of all running text.
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