Chinese symbol for “fortress”
堡
bǎo
(bound form) fortress; stronghold; (often used to transliterate -berg, -burg etc in place names); (bound form) burger (abbr. for 汉堡 (hàn bǎo))
The closest CC-CEDICT match for fortress is 堡 (bǎo), defined as: (bound form) fortress; stronghold; (often used to transliterate -berg, -burg etc in place names); (bound form) burger (abbr. for 汉堡 (hàn bǎo)).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “fortress”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 堡.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 城堡 | chéng bǎo | castle; rook (chess piece) |
| 汉堡 (漢堡) | hàn bǎo | (loanword) hamburger |
| 堡垒 (堡壘) | bǎo lěi | fort |
| 碉堡 | diāo bǎo | (military) pillbox; blockhouse; humorous way of writing 屌爆 (diǎo bào) |
| 古堡 | gǔ bǎo | ancient castle |
| 桥头堡 (橋頭堡) | qiáo tóu bǎo | bridgehead (military); stronghold serving as a base for advancing further into enemy territory |
See also: Japanese symbol for “fortress”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.