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剥

bō

HSK 6 Character Traditional 剝

What 剥 means

1. to peel
2. to skin
3. to flay
4. to shuck

Other readings

剥 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• bāoto peel; to skin; to shell

Example sentences

• 我给你剥橙子。
  I'll peel an orange for you.
• 胎盘早剥很危险。
  Tāipán zǎo bō hěn wēixiǎn.
  Early removal of the placenta is very dangerous.
• 齐里用指甲剥枇杷。
  Ziri uses his fingernail to peel loquats.
• 没有人能剥夺你的人权。
  Méiyǒu rén néng bōduó nǐ de rénquán.
  No one can deprive of your human rights.
• 我五年前做了网膜剥离。
  Wǒ wǔ niánqián zuò le wǎngmó bōlí.
  I had retinal detachment five years ago.
• 查尔斯剥开了你的香蕉。
  Charles peels your banana.

Words starting with 剥

• 剥削bō xuēto exploit; exploitation
• 剥夺bō duóto deprive; to expropriate; to strip (sb of his property)
• 剥离bō líto peel; to strip; to peel off
• 剥落bō luòto peel off
• 剥皮bāo píto skin; to flay; to peel; (fig.) (coll.) to haul (sb) over the coals; also pr. bō pí
• 剥掉bō diàoto peel off; to strip off
• 剥除bō chúto strip off; to peel off; to remove (esp. unwanted parts)
• 剥削者bō xuē zhěexploiter (of labor)
• 剥采比bō cǎi bǐstripping-to-ore ratio; stripping ratio
• 剥皮器bō pí qìpeeler (e.g. for vegetables)
• 剥削阶级bō xuē jiē jíexploiting class (in Marxist theory)
• 剥蚀bō shíto corrode; to expose by corrosion (geology)
• 剥皮钳bāo pí qiánwire stripper
• 剥啄bō zhuó(onomatopoeia) tap (on a door or window)

Words containing 剥

• 盘剥pán bōto exploit; to practice usury
• 刻剥kè bōto grab money; to exploit
• 现剥xiàn bāo(of fruit, prawns etc) peeled on the spot; Taiwan pr. xiàn bō
• 鲜剥xiān bāo(of fruit, prawns etc) freshly peeled; Taiwan pr. xiān bō
• 被剥削者bèi bō xuē zhěperson suffering exploitation; the workers in Marxist theory
• 资产剥离zī chǎn bō líasset stripping
• 毕毕剥剥bì bì bō bō(onomatopoeia) sound of knocking or bursting
• 生吞活剥shēng tūn huó bōto swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically
• 斑剥bān bōmottled and peeling off in places
• 抽丝剥茧chōu sī bō jiǎn(lit.) to unwind the silk thread from the cocoon (idiom); (fig.) to unravel a mystery…

Characters that look like 剥

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 测cèto survey; to measure; to conjecture
• 钥yuèkey; also pr. yào
• 骇hàito astonish; to startle; to hack (computing, loanword)
• 荆jīngchaste tree or its berry (Vitex agnus-castus); (literary) cane or switch made from a…
• 俐lìused in 伶俐
• 阄jiūlots (to be drawn); lot (in a game of chance)

Sounds the same

Read bō, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 播(bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas, rumors etc)…
• 波wave; ripple; storm
• 拨to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate
• 钵small earthenware plate or basin; a monk's alms bowl; Sanskrit paatra
• 般used in 般若
• 啵(onomatopoeia) to bubble
• 菠spinach
• 砵alms bowl
• 盋obscure variant of 钵
• 饽cake; biscuit
• 嶓name of a mountain
• 癶Kangxi radical 105, known as 登字头