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庖

páo

kitchen; cooking, cuisine

🔤 Pictophonetic: 广 (house) provides meaning, 包 provides pronunciation

HSK 8 strokes Uncommon (42%)

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广

guǎng

broad, vast, wide; building, house

包

bāo

wrap, pack, bundle; package

⿸广包 i

Stroke Order

Component Tree i

guǎng

广

broad, vast, wide; building, house

💡 Ideographic: A lean-to 厂, suggesting a building

3 strokes HSK 4

bāo

包

wrap, pack, bundle; package

💡 Ideographic: To swaddle 勹 a baby 巳; 勹 also provides the pronunciation

5 strokes HSK 3

bāo

勹

wrap

2 strokes

sì

巳

the hours from 9 to 11; 6th terrestrial branch

3 strokes

Words Using 庖 (5)

Character

Pinyin

Definition

HSK

lit. a nobleman stays clear of the kitchen (idiom, from Mencius) / fig. a nobleman who has seen a living animal cannot bear to see it die, hence he keeps away from the kitchen

jūnzǐyuànpáochú

君子远庖厨 ↗

lit. a nobleman stays clear of the kitchen (idiom, from Mencius) / fig. a nobleman who has seen a living animal cannot bear to see it die, hence he keeps away from the kitchen

庖厨 ↗

páochú

kitchen / cook / chef

páochú

庖厨 ↗

kitchen / cook / chef

庖牺氏 ↗

Páoxīshì

another name for [[伏羲<FúXī>]], consort of [[女媧|女娲<Nǚwā>]]

Páoxīshì

庖牺氏 ↗

another name for [[伏羲<FúXī>]], consort of [[女媧|女娲<Nǚwā>]]

越俎代庖 ↗

yuèzǔdàipáo

lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom); fig. to exceed one's place and meddle in other people's affairs / to take matters into one's own hands

yuèzǔdàipáo

越俎代庖 ↗

lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom); fig. to exceed one's place and meddle in other people's affairs / to take matters into one's own hands