bāo

peel

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Simplified form of .

Components
刂 meaning component

  Meaning component

dāo

  

knife

is a component form of .

录 sound component

  Sound component

  

copy

Evolution

剥 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
剥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
剥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
剥 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
剥 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

peel, peel off, to shell, strip; to flay

() 

bāo

to peel; to skin; to shell; to shuck

Most common words with 剥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to peel

剥夺

to deprive

剥削

to exploit

剥离

to peel

生吞活剥

to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 8.3133% of movies

2126th most common character in movies

1959th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

10

Traditional

Unicode

U+5265


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