哺 — Chinese character
哺
bǔ
to chew; to feed
- Pinyin
- bǔ
- Radical
- 30 ⼝ (Mouth)
- Strokes
- 10
- Components
- 口 甫
- Formation
- pictophonetic — mouth; meaning component 口; sound component 甫
- Japanese
- 哺 as a kanji
Common words with 哺
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 哺乳 | bǔ rǔ | breastfeeding; to suckle |
| 哺乳动物 (哺乳動物) | bǔ rǔ dòng wù | mammal |
| 哺育 | bǔ yù | to feed; (fig.) to nurture; to foster |
| 哺乳期 | bǔ rǔ qī | breastfeeding period; lactation period |
| 哺乳类 (哺乳類) | bǔ rǔ lèi | mammals |
| 反哺 | fǎn bǔ | to support one's parents in their old age; to show filial piety |
| 嗷嗷待哺 | áo áo dài bǔ | cry piteously for food |
| 哺乳纲 (哺乳綱) | bǔ rǔ gāng | Mammalia, the class of mammals |
| 哺养 (哺養) | bǔ yǎng | feed; rear |
| 乳哺 | rǔ bǔ | (literary) to feed an infant breast milk |
| 哺母乳 | bǔ mǔ rǔ | breastfeeding |
| 辍食吐哺 (輟食吐哺) | chuò shí tǔ bǔ | to stop eating and spit out |
English words written with 哺
哺 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 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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