胞 (bāo): placenta, womb, born of the same parents
胞 (bāo) is a Chinese character meaning “placenta.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of ⺼ (semantic) and 包 (phonetic). It ranks #1333 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 胞 flesh. Its radical form 肉 (meat) appears in many related characters such as 肉 (ròu, meat), 能 (néng, can), 背 (bèi, the back of a body or object).
Definitions
- placenta
- womb
- born of the same parents
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 胞
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 双胞胎noun | shuāng bāo tāi | twin |
| 同胞noun | tóng bāo | born of the same parents |
| 干细胞noun | gàn xì bāo | stem cell |
| 癌细胞noun | ái xì bāo | cancer cell |
| 脑细胞noun | nǎo xì bāo | brain cell |
| 白细胞noun | bái xì bāo | white blood cell |
| 红细胞noun | hóng xì bāo | erythrocyte |
| 血细胞noun | xuè xì bāo | blood cell |
| 神经细胞noun | shén jīng xì bāo | nerve cell |
| 单细胞adjective | dān xì bāo | (of an organism) single-celled |
| 卵细胞 | luǎn xì bāo | egg cell |
| 细胞核noun | xì bāo hé | nucleus (of cell) |
| 淋巴细胞noun | lín bā xì bāo | lymphocyte |
| 粒细胞noun | lì xì bāo | granulocyte |
| 体细胞noun | tǐ xì bāo | somatic cell |
胞 appears in 100 compound words: 11 as the first character, 47 as the last, and 42 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 胞 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (7)
Example Sentences
我在字典里查到了胞字的详细解释。
wǒ zài zì diǎn lǐ chá dào le bāo zì de xiáng xì xiè shì .
I looked up the detailed explanation of the character "胞" in the dictionary.
丈夫准备给诞下5胞胎老婆送黄金!五胞胎妈妈的产后康复与育儿...
zhàng fū zhǔn bèi gěi dàn xià 5 bāo tāi lǎo pó sòng huáng jīn ! wǔ bāo tāi mā mā de chǎn hòu kāng fù yǔ yù ér . . .
The husband is ready to give gold to his wife who gave birth to quintuplets! Postpartum rehabilitation and parenting of quintuplets mothers...
深海鱼视网膜发现新“混血”视觉细胞,颠覆 150 年生物学认知
shēn hǎi yú shì wǎng mó fā xiàn xīn hùn xiě shì jué xì bāo , diān fù 1 5 0 nián shēng wù xué rèn zhī
Deep-sea fish retinas discover new "mixed" visual cells that overturn 150-year-old biological cognition
...绑架案—中国商人遭撕票 传10跨海杀人同胞落网—有片
. . . bǎng jià àn — zhōng guó shāng rén zāo sī piào chuán 1 0 kuà hǎi shā rén tóng bāo luò wǎng — yǒu piàn
... Kidnapping case - Chinese businessman was torn up and 10 cross-sea murderers were arrested - there is a film
谢京颖孕肚卸货倒数!怀双胞胎“四肢超细” 激瘦身材曝光
xiè jīng yǐng yùn dù xiè huò dǎo shǔ ! huái shuāng bāo tāi sì zhī chāo xì jī shòu shēn cái pù guāng
Xie Jingying's pregnant belly unloading countdown! Pregnant with twins, "super thin limbs" and extremely thin figure exposed
跨越八百里守护 湘雅医院助超早产三胞胎平安回家团圆
kuà yuè bā bǎi lǐ shǒu hù 湘 yǎ yī yuàn zhù chāo zǎo chǎn sān bāo tāi píng ān huí jiā tuán yuán
Spanning 800 miles to protect Xiangya Hospital to help the ultra-premature triplets return home safely and reunite
我们不能分辨那对双胞胎。
Wǒmen bù néng fēnbiàn nà duì shuāngbāotāi.
We could not tell the twins one from the other.
她生了双胞胎女儿。
Tā shēng le shuāngbāotāi nǚ'ér.
She gave birth to twin girls.
他的妻子生下了一对双胞胎男孩。
Tā de qīzi shēngxià le yīduì shuāngbāotāi nánhái.
His wife gave birth to twin boys.
他把我误认为我的双胞胎兄弟。
Tā bǎ wǒ wù rènwéi wǒ de shuāngbāotāi xiōngdì.
He mistook me for my twin brother.
Character Family
Semantic Family — Characters sharing the ⺼ (flesh) component
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