泡
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bubble; foam; blister; to soak; to steep; to infuse; to dawdle; to loiter; to pick up (a girl); to get off with (a sexual partner); classifier for occurrences of an action; classifier for number of infusions
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #907 U+6CE1
How 泡 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 包 (phonetic, bāo)
How to remember it
bubbles · Heisig RSH #521
水 water + 包 wrap
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 包
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 包 (bāo) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 包 sound component | bāo | wrap, pack, bundle; package |
| 胞 | bāo | womb, placenta, fetal membrane |
| 炮 | pào | cannon, artillery |
| 跑 | pǎo | to run, to flee, to escape |
| 饱 | bǎo | satisfied; to eat one's fill |
| 刨 | páo | carpenter's plane; plane, level |
| 孢 | bāo | spore |
| 疱 | pào | acne |
| 鲍 | bào | abalone; dried fish; surname |
| 雹 | báo | hail |
| 庖 | páo | kitchen; cooking, cuisine |
| 狍 | páo | a species of deer found in northern China |
| 咆 | páo | to roar |
| 龅 | bāo | buck teeth |
| 匏 | páo | gourd; musical instrument |
Words containing 泡
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一点水一个泡 | yī diǎn shuǐ yī gè pào | honest and trustworthy (idiom) |
| 如法泡制 | rú fǎ pào zhì | see 如法炮製|如法炮制[ru2 fa3 pao2 zhi4] |
| 脑子有泡 | nǎo zi yǒu pào | soft in the head; brainless; dumb |
| 气泡布 | qì pào bù | bubble wrap |
| 化为泡影 | huà wéi pào yǐng | (idiom) to come to nothing |
| 气泡酒 | qì pào jiǔ | sparkling wine |
| 泡菜国 | Pào cài guó | (slang) South Korea |
| 泡病号 | pào bìng hào | to dilly-dally on the pretence of being ill; to malinger |
| 泡菜球 | pào cài qiú | pickleball |
| 泡子 | pāo zi | small lake; pond |
| 泡子 | pào zi | light bulb |
| 水泡 | shuǐ pào | bubble; blister |
| 泡水 | pào shuǐ | to infuse; to soak in water |
| 发泡剂 | fā pào jì | foaming agent; blowing agent |
| 小泡 | xiǎo pào | vesicles |
| 气泡 | qì pào | bubble; blister (in metal); (of beverages) sparkling; carbonated |
| 泡发 | pào fā | to reconstitute (dried mushrooms, seaweed etc) |
| 发泡 | fā pào | to produce foam; (of a beverage) fizzy; sparkling |
| 泡面 | pào miàn | instant noodles; (Tw) pirated software |
| 电灯泡 | diàn dēng pào | light bulb; (slang) unwanted third guest |