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庖

páo

Character

What 庖 means

1. kitchen

Words starting with 庖

• 庖厨páo chúkitchen; cook; chef
• 庖牺氏Páo xī shìanother name for 伏羲

Words containing 庖

• 君子远庖厨jūn zǐ yuàn páo chúlit. a nobleman stays clear of the kitchen (idiom, from Mencius)…
• 越俎代庖yuè zǔ dài páolit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom)…

Characters built on 包

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

• 抱bàoto hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug
• 跑pǎoto run; to run away; to escape
• 胞bāoplacenta; womb; born of the same parents
• 泡pàobubble; foam; blister; to soak; to steep; to infuse
• 炮pàocannon; firecracker
• 鲍bàoabalone
• 饱bǎoto eat till full; satisfied
• 袍páogown (lined)

Sounds the same

Read páo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 袍gown (lined)
• 跑(of an animal) to paw (the ground)
• 刨to dig; to excavate; (colloquial) to exclude
• 炮to prepare herbal medicine by roasting or parching (in a pan)
• 咆to roar
• 炰to roast
• 狍Siberian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus)
• 匏bottle gourd; Lagenaria vulgaris
• 鞄to work hides; leather bag
• 麃(archaic) a type of deer
• 麅variant of 狍