剥 — Chinese character
剥
bō
to peel, to skin; to exploit
- Pinyin
- bō
- Radical
- 18 ⼑ (Knife)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 录 刂
- Formation
- pictophonetic — knife; meaning component 刂; sound component 录
- Traditional
- 剝
- Japanese
- 剥 as a kanji
Common words with 剥
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 剥夺 (剝奪) | bō duó | to deprive; to expropriate |
| 剥削 (剝削) | bō xuē | to exploit; exploitation |
| 剥离 (剝離) | bō lí | to peel; to strip |
| 剥皮 (剝皮) | bāo pí | to skin; to flay; to peel; (fig.) (coll.) to haul (sb) over the coals |
| 盘剥 (盤剝) | pán bō | to exploit; to practice usury |
| 剥落 (剝落) | bō luò | to peel off |
| 剥掉 (剝掉) | bō diào | to peel off; to strip off |
| 生吞活剥 (生吞活剝) | shēng tūn huó bō | to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically |
| 剥蚀 (剝蝕) | bō shí | to corrode; to expose by corrosion (geology) |
| 抽丝剥茧 (抽絲剝繭) | chōu sī bō jiǎn | (lit.) to unwind the silk thread from the cocoon (idiom); (fig.) to unravel a mystery; to painstakingly follow the clues to eventually get to the bottom of the |
| 剥削者 (剝削者) | bō xuē zhě | exploiter (of labor) |
| 剥削阶级 (剝削階級) | bō xuē jiē jí | exploiting class (in Marxist theory) |
English words written with 剥
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