泡 — Chinese character
泡
pào
bubble, blister; swollen, puffed up
- Pinyin
- pào
- Radical
- 85 ⽔ (Water)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 氵 包
- Formation
- pictophonetic — water; meaning component 氵; sound component 包
- Japanese
- 泡 as a kanji
Common words with 泡
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 泡沫 | pào mò | foam; (soap) bubble |
| 泡泡 | pào pao | bubbles |
| 灯泡 (燈泡) | dēng pào | light bulb; see also 电灯泡 (diàn dēng pào) |
| 浸泡 | jìn pào | to steep; to soak |
| 气泡 (氣泡) | qì pào | bubble; blister (in metal) |
| 泡妞 | pào niū | to pick up girls; to play around with girls |
| 泡菜 | pào cài | pickled cabbage |
| 泡汤 (泡湯) | pào tāng | (coll.) to fizzle out; to come to nothing; to dawdle; to stall |
| 水泡 | shuǐ pào | bubble; blister |
| 泡澡 | pào zǎo | to bathe; to immerse oneself in a warm bath |
| 电灯泡 (電燈泡) | diàn dēng pào | light bulb; (slang) unwanted third guest |
| 泡茶 | pào chá | to make tea |
English words written with 泡
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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