饱 (bǎo): full
饱 (bǎo) is a Chinese character meaning “full.” Classified as HSK Level 3 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 饣 (semantic) and 包 (phonetic). It ranks #1971 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 饱 food. Its radical form 饣 (eat) appears in many related characters such as 饭 (fàn, meal, rice), 饿 (è, hungry), 馆 (guǎn, restaurant, hall).
Definitions
- full
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 饱受verb | bǎo shòu | to endure |
| 饱满adjective | bǎo mǎn | full |
| 饱和verb | bǎo hé | saturated |
| 饱餐verb | bǎo cān | to eat one's fill |
| 温饱verb | wēn bǎo | to have enough food and warm clothes |
| 饱含verb | bǎo hán | to be full of (emotion) |
| 大饱眼福phrase | dà bǎo yǎn fú | to feast one's eyes |
| 中饱私囊phrase | zhōng bǎo sī náng | to stuff one's pockets |
| 一饱眼福phrase | yī bǎo yǎn fú | to feast one's eyes on (idiom) |
| 饱尝verb | bǎo cháng | to enjoy fully |
| 饱眼福verb | bǎo yǎn fú | to feast one's eyes on (idiom) |
| 饱览verb | bǎo lǎn | to look intensively |
| 饱经风霜phrase | bǎo jīng fēng shuāng | weather-beaten |
| 酒足饭饱 | jiǔ zú fàn bǎo | to have eaten and drunk to one's heart's content |
| 饱经沧桑phrase | bǎo jīng cāng sāng | having lived through many changes |
饱 appears in 48 compound words: 56 as the first character, 23 as the last, and 21 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 饱 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (15)
to experience many vicissitudes; to have experienced many vicissitudes of life; to have lived through many changes
weather-beaten; having had one's fill of hardships; having experienced the hardship of life
to experience many vicissitudes; to have experienced many vicissitudes of life; to have lived through many changes
weather-beaten; having had one's fill of hardships; having experienced the hardship of life
Showing 12 of 15 idioms containing 饱.
Example Sentences
这顿饭吃得很饱，晚上可能不用吃宵夜了。
Zhè dùn fàn chī de hěn bǎo, wǎnshang kěnéng bú yòng chī xiāoyè le.
This meal was very filling; I probably won't need a late-night snack.
...员工餐厅年销百万颗月饼、自助餐75元夹到饱...“亏钱也要卖”的美味秘密
. . . yuán gōng cān tīng nián xiāo bǎi wàn kē yuè bǐng zì zhù cān yuán jiā dào bǎo . . . kuī qián yě yāo mài de měi wèi mì mì
... The employee restaurant sells millions of mooncakes a year, and the buffet is 75 yuan sandwiched to the full... The delicious secret of "selling even if you lose money"
过年“烤蚵吃到饱”10人吐泻 业者说话了
guò nián kǎo 蚵 chī dào bǎo rén tǔ xiè yè zhě shuō huà le
New Year's "all-you-can-eat oysters" 10 people vomited and diarrhea The operator spoke
...劳2.23起推全新人气着数套餐 脆辣鸡腿饱餐首次加入 黄泽林首拍“老麦”广告重新演...
. . . láo . qǐ tuī quán xīn rén qì zhe shǔ tào cān cuì là jī tuǐ bǎo cān shǒu cì jiā rù huáng zé lín shǒu pāi lǎo mài guǎng gào chóng xīn yǎn . . .
Starting February 23, McDonald's launches its new popular value meal featuring the Crispy Spicy Chicken Meal for the first time. Wong Chak-lam makes his debut in a McDonald's commercial, reprising his role...
麦当劳全新人气着数套餐优惠!脆辣鸡腿饱餐减$10 麦乐鸡/麦炸鸡/猪柳蛋汉堡餐...
mài dāng láo quán xīn rén qì zhe shǔ tào cān yōu huì ! cuì là jī tuǐ bǎo cān jiǎn mài lè jī mài zhà jī zhū liǔ dàn hàn bǎo cān . . .
McDonald's New Popular Value Meal Deals! Crispy Spicy Chicken Meal Save $10 McNuggets/McChicken/Chicken McNuggets & Egg Burger Meals...
台中老字号吃到饱传食安危机!一家5口食物中毒 食安处:最...
tái zhōng lǎo zì hào chī dào bǎo chuán shí ān wēi jī ! yī jiā kǒu shí wù zhōng dú shí ān chǔ zuì . . .
Taichung's Long-Established All-You-Can-Eat Restaurant Hit by Food Safety Crisis! Family of Five Suffers Food Poisoning; Food Safety Office: Most...
"你想再多吃点吗?" "不，我吃饱了。"
"nǐ xiǎng zài duō chī diǎn ma?" "bù, wǒ chībǎo le."
"Would you like any more?" "No, I've had enough."
我已经吃饱了，谢谢。
Wǒ yǐjīng chībǎo le, xièxie.
I'm already full, thank you.
稻穗越饱满越低头。
Dàosuì yuè bǎomǎn yuè dītóu.
The boughs that bear most hang lowest.
我吃饱了，所以我的胃都满了。
Wǒ chībǎo le, suǒyǐ wǒ de wèi dōu mǎn le.
I've had enough, so my stomach is full.
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