庖 — Chinese character
庖
páo
kitchen; cooking, cuisine
- Pinyin
- páo
- Radical
- 53 ⼴ (Dotted Cliff)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 广 包
- Formation
- pictophonetic — house; meaning component 广; sound component 包
- Japanese
- 庖 as a kanji
Common words with 庖
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 越俎代庖 | yuè zǔ dài páo | lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom); fig. to exceed one's place and meddle in other people's affairs; to take matters into |
| 庖厨 (庖廚) | páo chú | kitchen; cook |
庖 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 4 · Zhuangzi 8
- Mencius 1A.4
- Mencius 1A.7
- Mencius 3B.9
- Mencius 5B.6
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Zhuangzi Nourishment of the Soul
- Zhuangzi Kêng Sang Ch’u
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.