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褒
bāo
1. to praise
2. to commend
3. to honor
4. (of clothes) large or loose
Uncommon • Top 26% ✏️ 15 strokes

Character Breakdown (Single character)

褒
bāo
to cite; to honor, to praise; to recommend
15 丶

Compound Words (9)

褒呔
bāotāi
bow tie (loanword) (Cantonese)
褒姒
Bāosì
Baosi, concubine of King You of Zhou [[周幽王<ZhōuYōuwáng>]] and one of the famous Chinese beauties
褒忠
Bāozhōng
Baozhong or Paochung township in Yunlin county [[雲林縣|云林县<Yúnlínxiàn>]], Taiwan
褒扬
bāoyáng
to praise
褒义
bāoyì
commendatory
褒贬
bāobiǎn
to appraise
褒忠乡
Bāozhōngxiāng
Baozhong or Paochung township in Yunlin county [[雲林縣|云林县<Yúnlínxiàn>]], Taiwan
褒禅山
Bāochánshān
Mt Baochan in Anhui
一字褒贬
yīzìbāobiǎn
dispensing praise or blame with a single word (idiom)

Alternate Entries

褒
bāo
variant of [[褒<bāo>]]

Metadata

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Chinese
Character Frequency Rank
3,538
Word Frequency Rank
21,597 of 84,292

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