补 — Chinese character
补
bǔ
to fix, to mend, to patch, to restore
- Pinyin
- bǔ
- Radical
- 145 ⾐ (Clothes)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 衤 卜
- Formation
- pictophonetic — cloth; meaning component 衤; sound component 卜
- Traditional
- 補
Common words with 补
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 补充 (補充) | bǔ chōng | to replenish; to supplement |
| 补偿 (補償) | bǔ cháng | to compensate; to make up |
| 补助 (補助) | bǔ zhù | to subsidize; subsidy |
| 补贴 (補貼) | bǔ tiē | to subsidize; subsidy |
| 弥补 (彌補) | mí bǔ | to complement; to make up for a deficiency |
| 填补 (填補) | tián bǔ | to fill a gap; to fill in a blank (on a form) |
| 补给 (補給) | bǔ jǐ | supply; replenishment |
| 候补 (候補) | hòu bǔ | to wait to fill a vacancy; reserve (candidate) |
| 修补 (修補) | xiū bǔ | to mend |
| 互补 (互補) | hù bǔ | complementary; to complement each other |
| 补习 (補習) | bǔ xí | to take extra lessons in a cram school or with a private tutor |
| 补救 (補救) | bǔ jiù | to remedy |
English words written with 补
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.