坡 (pō): slope
坡 (pō) is a Chinese character meaning “slope.” Classified as HSK Level 6 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 土 (semantic) and 皮 (phonetic). It ranks #1540 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 坡 earth. Its radical form 土 (earth) appears in many related characters such as 在 (zài, to exist), 地 (dì, earth, ground), 场 (chǎng, field, place).
Definitions
- slope
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 坡
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 斜坡 | xié pō | slope |
| 新加坡 | xīn jiā pō | Singapore |
| 下坡 | xià pō | downhill |
| 走下坡路 | zǒu xià pō lù | to go downhill |
| 上坡 | shàng pō | uphill |
| 陡坡 | dǒu pō | steep slope |
| 坡道 | pō dào | road on a slope |
| 滑坡 | huá pō | rockslide |
| 吉隆坡 | jí lóng pō | Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia |
| 坡度 | pō dù | gradient |
| 上坡路 | shàng pō lù | uphill road |
| 下坡路 | xià pō lù | downhill road |
| 科伦坡 | kē lún pō | Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka |
| 苏东坡 | sū dōng pō | Su Dongpo, another name for Su Shi 蘇軾|苏轼 (1037-1101), northern Song writer and calligrapher |
| 东坡 | dōng pō | Dongpo District of Meishan City 眉山市[Mei2 shan1 Shi4], Sichuan |
坡 appears in 51 compound words: 18 as the first character, 45 as the last, and 37 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 坡 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (1)
Example Sentences
这个山坡太陡了,开车上去很危险。
Zhè gè shānpō tài dǒu le, kāichē shàngqu hěn wēixiǎn.
This hillside is too steep; it's dangerous to drive up.
(新春走基层)山西新绛:七星坡上坐满看戏人
( xīn chūn zǒu jī céng ) shān xī xīn 绛 : qī xīng pō shàng zuò mǎn kàn xì rén
(New Year at the grassroots level) Shanxi Xinjiang: The Qixing Slope is full of theatergoers
男子骑车出游经南横疑自撞护栏 坠边坡送医不治
nán zǐ qí chē chū yóu jīng nán héng yí zì zhuàng hù lán zhuì biān pō sòng yī bù zhì
The man was riding a bicycle through South Heng and was suspected of crashing into a guardrail and falling down a slope and was taken to hospital where he died
6旬骑士游南横公路自撞护栏 摔50米边坡丧命...撞击瞬间曝光
6 xún qí shì yóu nán héng gōng lù zì zhuàng hù lán shuāi 5 0 mǐ biān pō sāng mìng . . . zhuàng jī shùn jiān pù guāng
A 60-year-old knight traveled to Nanheng Highway and crashed into a guardrail and fell 50 meters down the slope and died... The impact was instantaneously exposed
餐饮在线运营商再惠谋求新加坡和香港双重上市:尚未盈..
cān yǐn zài xiàn yùn yíng shāng zài huì móu qiú xīn jiā pō hé xiāng gǎng shuāng chóng shǎng shì shàng wèi yíng . .
F&B online operator Re-Wai seeks dual listing in Singapore and Hong Kong: not yet profitable...
首金来了!苏翊鸣生日当天获男子坡面障碍技巧金牌 曾..
shǒu jīn lái le ! sū 翊 míng shēng rì dāng tiān huò nán zǐ pō miàn zhàng ài jì qiǎo jīn pái céng . .
Here comes the first gold! Su Yiming won the gold medal in men's steeplechase on his birthday, and had...
在新加坡,鞭刑是处置犯人的方法之一。
Zài Xīnjiāpō, biān xíng shì chǔzhì fànrén de fāngfǎ zhīyī.
In Singapore, one way to punish a criminal is to whip him or her.
山坡上有一个茅屋。
Shānpō shàng yǒu yī gè máowū.
There was a cottage on the side of the hill.
蜿蜒的小路爬上了陡坡。
Wānyán de xiǎolù páshàng le dǒupō.
The path zigzagged up the steep slope.
在新加坡的街道上扔垃圾会被罚款。
Zài Xīnjiāpō de jiēdào shàng rēng lājī huì bèi fákuǎn.
They fine you in Singapore if you throw trash in the streets.
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