補 — Chinese character
補
bǔ
to fix, to mend, to patch, to restore
- Pinyin
- bǔ
- Radical
- 145 ⾐ (Clothes)
- Strokes
- 13
- Components
- 衤 甫
- Formation
- pictophonetic — cloth; meaning component 衤; sound component 甫
- Simplified
- 补
- Japanese
- 補 as a kanji
補 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 2 · Mencius 6 · Zhuangzi 4
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 77
- Mencius 1B.4
- Mencius 3A.1
- Mencius 3B.4
- Mencius 6B.7
- Mencius 7A.13
- Zhuangzi The Evidence of Virtue Complete
- Zhuangzi The Great Supreme
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.