褒 — Chinese character
褒
bāo
to cite; to honor, to praise; to recommend
- Pinyin
- bāo
- Radical
- 145 ⾐ (Clothes)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 衣 保
- Formation
- pictophonetic — clothes; meaning component 衣; sound component 保
- Japanese
- 褒 as a kanji
Common words with 褒
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 褒扬 (褒揚) | bāo yáng | to praise |
| 褒贬 (褒貶) | bāo biǎn | to appraise; to pass judgment on |
| 褒义 (褒義) | bāo yì | commendatory sense; positive connotation |
| 一字褒贬 (一字褒貶) | yī zì bāo biǎn | (lit.) to dispense praise or blame with a single word (idiom); (fig.) concise and powerful wording |
| 褒呔 | bāo tāi | bow tie (loanword) (Cantonese) |
| 贬多于褒 (貶多於褒) | biǎn duō yú bāo | to get more criticism than praise |
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.