包

Translingual

Stroke order

shinjitai	包
simplified	包
traditional	包

Alternative forms

Note different Japanese and Chinese forms (center open 己 in Japanese, a closed loop 巳 in Chinese). Note also that the bottom tail extends beyond the right side (in either form).

Han character

包 (radical 20 勹+3, 5 strokes, cangjie input 心口山 (PRU), four-corner 2771₂)

1. wrap, pack, bundle
2. package
3. bun

Derived characters

• 抱 炮 疱 砲 飽 鞄

References

• KangXi: page 150, character 27
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2506
• Dae Jaweon: page 340, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 257, character 6
• Unihan data for U+5305

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Cantonese

Hanzi

包 (jyutping baau1, Yale baau1)

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Japanese

Kanji

包 (grade 4 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: ほう (hō)
• Kun: つつむ (tsutsumu), つつみ (tsutsumi)

Noun

包 (katakana パオ, romaji pao)

1. yurt

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Korean

Hanja

包 (hangeul 포, revised po, McCune-Reischauer p'o)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

包 (pinyin bāo (bao1), Wade-Giles pao¹)

Compounds

• 包裹 (bāoguǒ)
• 牛角面包

See also

• 咆 - 庖 - 抱 - 枹 - 泡 - 炮 - 皰 - 砲 - 胞 - 匏 - 飽 - 鮑

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Middle Chinese

Han character

包 (bau)

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Vietnamese

Han character

包 (bao)