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菠

bō

Character

What 菠 means

1. spinach

Example sentences

• 菠萝坏了。
  The pineapple has gone bad.
• 你喜欢菠菜吗？
  Nǐ xǐhuan bōcài ma?
  Do you like spinach?
• 她强迫他吃菠菜。
  She forced him to eat spinach.
• 我吃了一些菠菜。
  I ate some spinach.
• 那只鸭子吃菠萝。
  The duck ate pineapple.
• 汤姆讨厌吃菠菜。
  Tom hates spinach.

Words starting with 菠

• 菠萝bō luópineapple
• 菠菜bō càispinach; (slang) gambling; gambler (alternative term for 博彩
• 菠烷bō wánbornane; camphane C10H18
• 菠萝包bō luó bāopineapple bun, a sweet bun popular esp. in Hong Kong…
• 菠萝啤bō luó pípineapple-flavored soda
• 菠萝油bō luó yóupineapple bun 菠萝包
• 菠萝蜜bō luó mìjackfruit

Words containing 菠

• 木菠萝mù bō luójackfruit; breadfruit; Artocarpus heterophyllus
• 树菠萝shù bō luójackfruit
• 大树菠萝dà shù bō luójackfruit

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
• 啵bō(onomatopoeia) to bubble

Characters that look like 菠

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

• 透tòu(bound form) to penetrate; to seep through; to tell secretly; to leak; thoroughly…
• 袭xí(bound form) to raid; to attack; (bound form) to continue the pattern; to perpetuate…
• 疲píweary
• 匿nìto hide
• 菱líng(bound form) water caltrop (Trapa species)
• 桨jiǎngoar; paddle

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
• 啵(onomatopoeia) to bubble
• 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