伯 — Chinese character
伯
bó
older brother; father's elder brother; sir, sire, count
- Pinyin
- bó
- Radical
- 9 ⼈ (Man)
- Strokes
- 7
- Components
- 亻 白
- Formation
- pictophonetic — person; meaning component 亻; sound component 白
- Japanese
- 伯 as a kanji
Common words with 伯
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 伯爵 | bó jué | earl; count |
| 韦伯 (韋伯) | wéi bó | weber (unit of magnetic flux, Wb) |
| 伯伯 | bó bo | father's elder brother; uncle |
| 伯父 | bó fù | father's elder brother; term of respect for older man |
| 伯母 | bó mǔ | wife of father's elder brother; aunt |
| 老伯 | lǎo bó | uncle (polite form of address for older male) |
| 大伯 | dà bó | husband's older brother; father's older brother (esp. his oldest brother) |
| 叔伯 | shū bai | (of cousins) descending from the same grandfather or great-grandfather |
| 老伯伯 | lǎo bó bo | grandpa (polite form of address for old man) |
| 伯劳 (伯勞) | bó láo | shrike |
| 伯叔 | bó shū | father's brother (uncle); husband's brother (brother-in-law) |
| 世伯 | shì bó | uncle (affectionate name for a friend older than one's father); old friend |
English words written with 伯
伯 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Analects 23 · Mencius 29 · Zhuangzi 55
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 80
- Analects 2.6
- Analects 5.7
- Analects 5.22
- Analects 6.1
- Analects 6.8
- Analects 7.14
- Analects 8.1
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.
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