寶 — Chinese character
寶
bǎo
treasure, jewel; rare, precious
- Pinyin
- bǎo
- Radical
- 40 ⼧ (Roof)
- Strokes
- 20
- Components
- 宀 珤 貝
- Formation
- ideographic — Valuables 貝 kept in one's house 宀; 珤 also provides the pronunciation
- Simplified
- 宝
- Japanese
- 寶 as a kanji
寶 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 3 · Analects 1 · Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 2 · Great Learning 4 · Doctrine of the Mean 1
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 62
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 67
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 69
- Analects 17.1
- Mencius 7B.28
- Zhuangzi Self-Conceit
- Zhuangzi Hsü Wu Kuei
- The Great Learning Passage 13
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