"薄" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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Strokes 6
Composition
Strokes 16
Structure
Decomp. 艹氵甫寸
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Prononciation
Mandarin bó; bò; báo
Entry Methods
Pinyin bo2; bo4; bao2
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Cangjie
TEII
廿水戈戈
Sijiao 4414.6
Wubi AIGF
CNS 11643 1-752B
Encodages (hexa)
Unicode U+8584
GB2312 B1A1
BIG5 C1A1
Results for 薄
 bó meager / slight / weak / ungenerous or unkind / frivolous / to despise / to belittle / to look down on / to approach or near
 bò see 薄荷[bo4 he5]
 báo thin / cold in manner / indifferent / weak / light / infertile
Results beginning with 薄
 bó mó membrane / film / CL:層|层[ceng2]
 bó ruò weak / frail
 bò he field mint / peppermint
 báo shā gauze (cloth)
 báo bǎn thin plate / sheet / lamina / Taiwan pr. [bo2 ban3]
 bó wù mist / haze
 báo piàn thin slice / thin section / flake / Taiwan pr. [bo2 pian4]
 bó mìng to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women) / to be born unlucky
 bó qíng inconstant in love / fickle
 báo céng thin layer / thin slice / film / lamina / lamella
 báo bǐng thin flat cake / pancake / pizza
 báo zhǐ thin paper (tissue paper, onionskin etc)
 bó lì small profits
 bó mù dusk / twilight
 bó hòu meanness and generosity / intimacy and alienation
 bó lǐ my meager gift (humble)
 báo cuì crispy / thin and brittle / a crispy fried cracker
 báo chóu light silk / silk chiffon
 báo jiǔ dilute wine / insipid wine / I'm sorry the wine I offer you is so poor. (humble)
 bó àn at dusk / evening
 bó chǎn meager estate / small means
 bó chóu small reward (for work) / meager remuneration
 bó dài mean treatment / indifference / meager hospitality
 bó dì barren land / poor soil
 bó hǎi vast area / all the way to the sea
 bó jì meager skill / my poor talents (humble)
 bó jiǔ dilute wine / insipid wine / I'm sorry the wine I offer you is so poor (humble)
 bó miàn my meager sensibilities / blushing face / please do it for my sake (i.e. to save my face)(humble)
 bó míng dim light / early dawn
 bó tián barren field / poor land
 bó xiǎo at dawn
 bó xìng fickle / inconstant person
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 Bó Xī lái Bo Xilai (1949-), PRC politician, appointed to the Politburo in 2007, sentenced in 2013 to life imprisonment for corruption and misconduct
 Bó Yī bō Bo Yibo (1908-2007), ranking PRC politician, served on State Council from 1950s to 1980s as colleague of Deng Xiaoping
 bò he yóu peppermint oil
  pellicular water / hygroscopic water / sorption water
 báo tòu jìng thin lens (optics)
 bò he táng mint (confectionery)
 bò he tóng menthone (chemistry)
 Bó jiā qiū Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), Italian writer, poet, and humanist, author of Decameron 十日談|十日谈[Shi2 ri4 Tan2]
 bó kǎo bǐng pancake
 Bó Ruì guāng Raymond Burghard (1945-), US diplomat and ambassador to Vietnam 2001-2004, chairman of American Institute in Taiwan from 2006
 bó yóu céng oil sheet
 bó ruò huán jié weak link / loophole
 bó lì duō xiāo small profit but rapid turnover
  thin-film technique
 bó mó chén jī thin-film
 bó mó diàn zǔ sheet
 bó tāi cí qì eggshell china
 bó yǎng hòu zàng to neglect one's parents but give them a rich funeral / hypocrisy in arranging a lavish funeral after treating one's parents meanly
  thin-layer chromatography
  thin-film photovoltaic module
  thin film cell device
Approximate Results for 薄
 qīng bó light (weight) / frivolous / a philanderer / to scorn / disrespectful
 dān bó weak / frail / thin / flimsy
 wēi bó scanty / meager
 dàn bó thin / light / flagging / faint
 qiǎn bó superficial
 kè bó unkind / harsh / cutting / mean / acrimony / to embezzle by making illegal deductions
 xī bó thin / rarefied
 tān bó dilution
 hòu báo thickness / also pr. [hou4 bo2]
 hòu bó to favor one and discriminate against the other (abbr. for 厚此薄彼[hou4 ci3 bo2 bi3])
 pēn bó to gush / to squirt / to surge / to well out / to overflow
 mián bó my humble effort / my meager contribution (humble)
 fěi bó humble / meager / thin / to despise
 bǐ bó to despise / to scorn
 jí bó (of land) infertile / barren
 cán bó variant of 蠶箔|蚕箔[can2 bo2]
 fú báo frivolous / philandering
 fú bó frivolous / philandering
 jiǎn bó to lack the necessities of life
 liǎn báo bashful / shy
 mìng bó to be unlucky
西 xī bò cake
 yàn bó to despise / to look down upon sth
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 liǎn pí báo thin-skinned / sensitive
 hòu bó guī feeler gauge
 wēi bó de meager
 xiāng bò he savory (herb)
 rú lu:3 bó bīng lit. as if walking on thin ice (idiom) / fig. to be extremely cautious / to be skating on thin ice
 jiān suān kè bó sharp and unkind (words)
 wàng zì fěi bó to be unduly humble (idiom) / to undervalue oneself
 hòu cǐ bó bǐ to favour one and discriminate against the other
 hóng yán bó mìng beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom)
 hòu gǔ bó jīn to revere the past and neglect the present (idiom)
 hòu jī bó fā lit. to have accumulated knowledge and deliver it slowly (idiom) / good preparation is the key to success / to be well prepared
 pēn bó yù chū to be on the verge of eruption (idiom) / (of the sun) to emerge in all its brilliance
 pín zuǐ bó shé garrulous and sharp-tongued
 qīng kǒu bó shé lit. light mouth, thin tongue (idiom) / hasty and rude / caustic and sharp-tongued
 qīng zuǐ bó shé lit. light mouth, thin tongue (idiom) / hasty and rude / caustic and sharp-tongued
 yì bó yún tiān supremely honorable and righteous
 yī dān shí bó thin coat, meager food (idiom) / life of wretched poverty / destitute
  thindown
  crustal thinning
 dǎ báo jiǎn dāo thinning scissors
 dé bó néng xiǎn little virtue and meager abilities (idiom) / I'm a humble person and not much use at anything (Song writer Ouyang Xiu 歐陽修|欧阳修[Ou1 yang2 Xiu1])
 hòu sǐ bó shēng lit. to praise the dead and revile the living / fig. to live in the past (idiom)
 hòu yǎng bó zàng generous care but a thrifty funeral / to look after one's parents generously, but not waste money on a lavish funeral
 hú jiāo bò he peppermint
 jīn qián bò hé Glechoma
 jīn shǔ báo piàn foil / Taiwan pr. [jin1 shu3 bo2 pian4]
 kè bó guǎ ēn harsh and merciless (idiom)
 qīng làng fú bó (idiom) frivolous
 qióng jiā bó yè poor and with few means of subsistance (idiom) / destitute
 rì bó Yān zī lit. the sun sets in Yanzi (idiom) / fig. the day is drawing to an end / the last days (of a person, a dynasty etc)
  lean-burn technology
  ozone thinning / thinning of the ozone layer
 tān bó hòu měi gǔ yíng lì diluted earnings per share
  thinning of the Arctic icecap
  ultra-thin thermoluminescent dosimeter slide
  Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping System
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