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煲

bāo

Character

What 煲 means

1. deep cooking pot
2. to cook slowly in such a pot

Words starting with 煲

• 煲汤bāo tāngto make soup; slow-simmered soup
• 煲饭bāo fànto cook rice
• 煲电话粥bāo diàn huà zhōuto talk endlessly on the phone

Words containing 煲

• 电饭煲diàn fàn bāoelectric rice cooker
• 箍煲gū bāo(originally Cantonese) to patch things up with one's spouse or lover…
• 海陆煲hǎi lù bāoSea and Land Casserole (Zhejiang dish of chicken and clams simmered in herbal broth)

Characters built on 保

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

• 堡bǎo(bound form) fortress; stronghold…
• 褒bāoto praise; to commend; to honor
• 葆bǎodense foliage; to cover
• 褓bǎoused in 襁褓; used in 褓姆

Characters that look like 煲

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

• 模móto imitate; model; norm
• 堡bǎo(bound form) fortress; stronghold…
• 慢mànslow
• 筛shāi(bound form) a sieve; to sieve; to sift; to filter; to eliminate through selection
• 镀dùto plate (with gold, silver etc); (prefix) -plated
• 缦mànplain thin silk; slow; unadorned

Sounds the same

Read bāo, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 包to cover; to wrap; to hold
• 胞placenta; womb; born of the same parents
• 剥to peel; to skin; to shell
• 褒to praise; to commend; to honor
• 炮to sauté; to fry; to dry by heating
• 苞bud; flower calyx; luxuriant
• 孢spore
• 龅(of a bucktooth) to protrude; to stick out
• 蕔a kind of grass (old)
• 勹old variant of 包
• 闁old variant of 褒; to praise