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泡 (pào): meaning and stroke order

泡 (pào) means bubble; foam, blister, to soak; to steep; to infuse, to dawdle; to loiter.

泡

Simplified
泡
Traditional
泡 (same form)
Pinyin
pào · pāo

Stroke order of 泡

泡

  • pāo puffed; swollen; spongy; small lake (esp. in place names)
  • pào bubble; foam; blister
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 泡

  1. pào
    • bubble; foam
    • blister
    • to soak; to steep; to infuse
    • to dawdle; to loiter
    • to pick up (a girl)
    • to get off with (a sexual partner)
    • classifier for occurrences of an action
    • classifier for number of infusions
  2. pāo
    • puffed; swollen; spongy
    • small lake (esp. in place names)
    • classifier for urine or feces

Radical and structure

泡
Radical 水 (Kangxi radical 85) · 8 strokes · 氵 on the left, 包 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

泡 in our stories

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  • 聂川没有卖。春节的时候，他把那些笑过他的亲戚都请到家里，泡了一壶茶，说：“舅公说了，要一起喝。”

    Niè Chuān méiyǒu mài Chūnjié de shíhou tā bǎ nàxiē xiào guò tā de qīnqi dōu qǐng dào jiā lǐ pào le yì hú chá shuō jiùgōng shuō le yào yìqǐ hē

    Nie Chuan didn't sell it. At the Spring Festival he invited all the relatives who had laughed at him, brewed a pot of the tea and said, "Great-uncle said we should drink it together."

    From the story Great-uncle's wooden box HSK 6

  • 那时候他们穷得连空调都装不起，夏天光着膀子写程序，饿了就泡一碗方便面分着吃。

    nà shíhou tāmen qióng de lián kōngtiáo dōu zhuāng bù qǐ xiàtiān guāng zhe bǎngzi xiě chéngxù è le jiù pào yì wǎn fāngbiànmiàn fēn zhe chī

    Back then they were too poor even for air conditioning. In summer they coded shirtless, and when they were hungry they shared a bowl of instant noodles.

    From the story The day he rang the bell HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 泡

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).