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堡
bǎo
1.
an earthwork
2.
castle
3.
position of defense
4.
stronghold
5.
used in place names, often as phonetic bao for "burg" or "bad"
Very Common • Top 2%
✏️ 12 strokes
Character Breakdown (Single character)
Compound Words (20)
古堡
gǔbǎo
ancient castle
地堡
dìbǎo
bunker (underground fortification)
城堡
chéngbǎo
castle
堡垒
bǎolěi
fort
堡寨
bǎozhài
fort
堡礁
bǎojiāo
barrier reef
暗堡
ànbǎo
bunker
林堡
línbǎo
Limburg
沙堡
shābǎo
sandcastle
洪堡
Hóngbǎo
Humboldt
汉堡
Hànbǎo
Hamburg (German city)
汉堡
hànbǎo
hamburger (loanword)
皇堡
Huángbǎo
Burger King Whopper
碉堡
diāobǎo
pillbox (military fortification)
红堡
hóngbǎo
Red Fort (historic building in Delhi, India)
匹兹堡
Pǐzībǎo
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
古登堡
Gǔdēngbǎo
Gutenberg (name)
哥德堡
Gēdébǎo
Gothenburg (city in Sweden)
大堡礁
Dàbǎojiāo
Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
彼得堡
Bǐdébǎo
Petersburg (place name)
Alternate Entries
Metadata
- Category
- Chinese
- HSK Character Level
- 6
- Character Frequency Rank
- 1,520
- Word Frequency Rank
- 1,494 of 84,292