Chinese Character Wiki

褒

bāo

praise

Components
衣 meaning component

衣  Meaning component

yī, yì

  

clothes

clothes

保 sound component

保  Sound component

bǎo

  

protect

Evolution

褒 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
褒 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
褒 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
褒 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
褒 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

褒  

bāo

praise, commend, honor, cite; to praise; to commend; to honor; (of clothes) large or loose

褒 (襃) 

bāo

variant of 褒[bāo]

Most common words with 褒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

褒

to praise

褒贬

to appraise

褒义

commendatory sense

褒扬

to praise

褒姒

Baosi, concubine of King You of Zhou 周幽王[Zhōu​Yōu​wáng] and one of the famous Chinese beauties

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤu

paw

bāo

praise (v.)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3539th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+8912

Shuowen

“襃，衣博裾。从衣，省聲。，古文。”


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