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鲍 meaning and stroke order

bào

Abalone; dried fish; surname

13 strokesRadical 鱼Traditional 鮑
Strokes13
Pinyinbào
ToneTone 4
Frequency#1,420
Printable worksheet

How to write 鲍, stroke by stroke

13 strokes in order. Each box adds the next stroke in red. Write top to bottom and left to right, and finish enclosing strokes last.

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Meaning of 鲍

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, grouped by pronunciation.

bàofourth tone (falling)
  1. abalone

How 鲍 is built

Phono-semantic (sound + meaning) character. Fish.

yúfish+bāoto cover

鱼 gives the meaning and 包 hints at the sound.

Radical: 鱼 (fish), shared by 79 characters on this site.

How to remember 鲍

鲍 combines 鱼 (yú, fish) for the meaning with 包 (bāo) for the sound. Picture a sea creature wrapped up tight in its shell like a little package, 包.

鲍 is mostly seen in the word 鲍鱼 (bàoyú), abalone, a prized seafood at banquets, and as a surname. Example: 这家餐厅的鲍鱼很贵。(Zhè jiā cāntīng de bàoyú hěn guì.) The abalone at this restaurant is very expensive.

Common mistake: Learners often read 鲍 with the first tone like its sound part 包 (bāo), but it is fourth tone, bào. Also, 鲍鱼 is not a fish even though it contains 鱼; it is a shellfish.

Common words with 鲍

Ordered by HSK level, then by how often they appear in everyday Chinese.

WordPinyinMeaningLevel
鲍鱼bàoyúabalone

鲍 in example sentences

Real sentences from the Tatoeba project, with pinyin and English.

鲍bào伯bó很hěn少shǎo写xiě信xìn给gěi他tā的de父fù母mǔ。
Bob seldom writes to his parents.
鲍bào伯bó每měi个gè月yuè写xiě一yī次cì信xìn给gěi我wǒ。
Bob writes to me once a month.
鲍bào伯bó对duì他tā的de朋péng友yǒu说shuō：「小xiǎo鸟niǎo死sǐ了le。」
Bob said to his friend: "The bird is dead."
鲍bào伯bó来lái前qián我wǒ们men不bú会huì开kāi始shǐ。
We won't start till Bob comes.
鲍bào伯bó从cóng窗chuāng户hù进jìn入rù了le房fáng子zi。
Bob entered the house through a window.

Questions about 鲍

How many strokes are in 鲍?

鲍 is written with 13 strokes. The diagrams on this page number every stroke in the order it is written, with the new stroke shown in red.

What does 鲍 mean?

鲍 (bào) means abalone; dried fish; surname. A common word with it is 鲍鱼 (bàoyú), meaning "abalone".

How do you pronounce 鲍?

鲍 is pronounced bào, in the fourth tone (falling).

What is the radical of 鲍?

The radical of 鲍 is 鱼, which carries the idea of "fish". Dictionaries list 鲍 under this radical.

What is the traditional form of 鲍?

The traditional form of 鲍 is 鮑. Traditional characters are used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau; 鲍 is the simplified form used in mainland China and Singapore.

Is abalone actually a fish?

No. Abalone is a sea snail with a shell. Chinese names for many sea creatures use the 鱼 component anyway, like 鲍 here.

How is 鲍 used as a surname?

鲍 (Bào) is a real Chinese family name. You say 我姓鲍 (wǒ xìng Bào) to mean my surname is Bao.