菠 (bō): spinach
菠 (bō) is a Chinese character meaning “spinach.” Outside the HSK 3.0 syllabus (CLEC 2022), it is composed of 艹 (semantic) and 波 (phonetic). It ranks #2889 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 菠 plant. Its radical form 艹 (grass) appears in many related characters such as 蒸 (zhēng, to steam), 草 (cǎo, grass), 花 (huā, flower).
Definitions
- spinach
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 菠萝noun | bō luó | pineapple |
| 菠菜noun | bō cài | spinach |
| 大树菠萝noun | dà shù bō luó | jackfruit |
| 菠萝包noun | bō luó bāo | pineapple bun, a sweet bun popular esp. in Hong Kong (typically does not contain pineapple – the name comes from the ... |
| 树菠萝noun | shù bō luó | jackfruit |
| 木菠萝noun | mù bō luó | jackfruit |
| 菠萝油noun | bō luó yóu | pineapple bun 菠蘿包|菠萝包 with a slice of butter inserted |
| 菠烷 | bō wán | bornane |
| 菠萝蜜noun | bō luó mì | jackfruit |
| 菠萝啤 | bō luó pí | pineapple-flavored soda |
菠 appears in 10 compound words: 70 as the first character, 0 as the last, and 30 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 菠 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Example Sentences
而油炒对菠菜中草酸的去除率并不高，都不超过5% ，即使增加烹调油用量作用也不大。
ér yóu chǎo duì bō cài zhōng cǎo suān de qù chú lǜ bìng bù gāo , dōu bù chāo guò 5 , jí shǐ zēng jiā pēng diào yóu yòng liàng zuò yòng yě bù dà .
However, stir-frying with oil does not significantly reduce the oxalic acid content in spinach—the reduction rate does not exceed 5%—and even increasing the amount of cooking oil used has little effect.
菠萝蜜，大家今年都吃了没？
bō luó mì , dà jiā jīn nián dōu chī le méi ?
Have you all tried jackfruit this year?
推荐食物： 芝麻菜、白菜、菠菜、甜菜根、生菜等。
tuī jiàn shí wù : zhī má cài , bái cài , bō cài , tián cài gēn , shēng cài děng .
Recommended foods: arugula, napa cabbage, spinach, beets, lettuce, etc.
Character Family
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