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包子

bāo zi

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word

包子 (bāo zi) means "bao (steamed stuffed bun)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 包子 means

1. baozi; bao (steamed stuffed bun)

The characters in 包子

• 包bāoto cover; to wrap; to hold
• 子zinoun suffix, as in 椅子

Example sentences

• 大学时期，买零食很便宜。我常常会吃个咖哩牛肉包子或一个大肉桂卷，再喝杯茶。
  During my university days, it was cheap then to buy a snack. I would munch on a curried beef bun or a big cinnamon roll and drink a cup of tea.

Words starting with 包子

• 包子有肉不在褶上bāo zi yǒu ròu bù zài zhě shànga book is not judged by its cover (idiom)

Words containing 包子

• 气包子qì bāo ziquick-tempered person
• 土包子tǔ bāo zicountry bumpkin; boor; unsophisticated country person (humble, applied to oneself)
• 菜包子cài bāo zisteamed bun stuffed with vegetables; (fig.) useless person; a good-for-nothing
• 肉包子打狗ròu bāo zi dǎ gǒulit. to fling a meat bun at a dog (idiom); fig. to flush (one's money or efforts) down…

Where 包子 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Food, Cooking & Cuisine (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bāo zi correctly.
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