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薄
Mandarin · pinyin báo#
Meanings · báo
- thin
- cold in manner
- indifferent
- weak
- light
- infertile
Mandarin · pinyin bó#
Meanings · bó
- meager
- slight
- weak
- ungenerous or unkind
- frivolous
- to despise
- to belittle
- to look down on
- to approach or near
Mandarin · pinyin bò#
Meanings · bò
- see 薄荷 bò he
Mandarin · pinyin Bó#
Meanings · Bó
- surname Bo
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- 薄
- báo · bó · thin, slight, weak; poor, stingy
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Mandarin tones
2 · bao2
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Cantonese word readings for 薄. 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
- thin (not thick); flimsy
- slight; meagre; small
- poor; infertile
- cold in manner; indifferent
- ungenerous; unkind; mean
- (of taste) weak; light; not strong
- to belittle; to despise
- (alt-of, alternative) alternative form of 亳 (Bó, “capital of Yin”)
- to reduce
- (literary) to approach
- a surname
character
- only used in 薄荷 (bòhé, “mint”)
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- (historical dictionaries only) only used in 蓾薄
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