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胞
Mandarin · pinyin bāo
Meanings
- placenta
- womb
- born of the same parents
Characters in this entry
- 胞
- bāo · womb, placenta, fetal membrane
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Mandarin tones
1 · bao1
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
baau1 · paau1
Cantonese word readings for 胞. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
character · Etymology 1
- afterbirth; placenta
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) womb
- born of the same parents
- (figuratively) born of the same ancestors; fellow countrypeople; compatriot
- (abbreviation, alt-of) short for 細胞／细胞 (xìbāo, “cell”)
- (geometry) cell (three-dimensional facet of a polytope)
character · Etymology 2
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 脬 (pāo, “bladder”)
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 泡 (pāo, “Classifier for excreta.”)
character · Etymology 3
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 庖 (páo, “cook”)
character · Etymology 4
- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 皰 /疱 (pào, “blister; bleb”)
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