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啵

bō

Character

What 啵 means

1. onomatopoeiato bubble

Other readings

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

• bogrammatical particle equivalent to 吧

Words starting with 啵

• 啵啵bō bō(onomatopoeia) bubbling noise

Words containing 啵

• 打啵dǎ bō(dialect) to kiss
• 嘚啵dē bo(colloquial) to run off at the mouth; to jabber on

Characters built on 波

These share the phonetic component 波 (bō), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 婆pó(bound form) grandmother; (bound form) matron; (bound form) mother-in-law
• 菠bōspinach

Characters that look like 啵

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

• 健jiànhealthy; to invigorate; to strengthen
• 皱zhòuto wrinkle; wrinkled; to crease
• 琥hǔused in 琥珀
• 铍píberyllium (chemistry)
• 铼láirhenium (chemistry)
• 钹bócymbals

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
• 剥to peel; to skin; to flay
• 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
• 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