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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)

堡
bǎo
fort, fortress; town, village
HSK 6 12 丶

Compound Words (20)

堡垒
bǎolěi
fort
堡寨
bǎozhài
fort
堡礁
bǎojiāo
barrier reef
碉堡
diāobǎo
pillbox (military fortification)
林堡
línbǎo
Limburg
暗堡
ànbǎo
bunker
皇堡
Huángbǎo
Burger King Whopper
汉堡
hànbǎo
hamburger (loanword)
红堡
hóngbǎo
Red Fort (historic building in Delhi, India)
汉堡
Hànbǎo
Hamburg (German city)
洪堡
Hóngbǎo
Humboldt
沙堡
shābǎo
sandcastle
古堡
gǔbǎo
ancient castle
地堡
dìbǎo
bunker (underground fortification)
城堡
chéngbǎo
castle
HSK 6
爱丁堡
Àidīngbǎo
Edinburgh, capital of Scotland
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

Alternate Entries

堡
pù
variant of [[鋪|铺<pù>]] / used in place names

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
6
Character Frequency Rank
1,520
Word Frequency Rank
1,494 of 84,292

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