剥 - bō - Chinese character definition, English meaning and stroke order

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10 strokes
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剝 (剥)

bō

Definition

to peel
to skin
to flay
to shuck

Other pronunciations

bāo

to peel
to skin
to shell
to shuck

Character Decomposition

Related words (19)

剝削

bō xuē

to exploit; exploitation

剝啄

bō zhuó

(onom.) tap (on a door or window)

剝奪

bō duó

to deprive; to expropriate; to strip (sb of his property)

剝掉

bō diào

to peel off; to strip off

same as 剝皮

to peel; to strip; to peel off; to come off (of tissue, skin, covering etc)

to peel off

to corrode; to expose by corrosion (geology)

exploiter (of labor)

peeler (e.g. for vegetables)

剝採比

bō cǎi bǐ

stripping-to-ore ratio; stripping ratio

剝削階級

bō xuē jiē jí

exploiting class (in Marxist theory)

刻剝

kè bō

to grab money; to exploit

斑剝

bān bō

mottled and peeling off in places

盤剝

pán bō

to exploit; to practice usury

被剝削者

bèi bō xuē zhě

person suffering exploitation; the workers in Marxist theory

詞綴剝除

cí zhuì bō chú

affix stripping; to determine the root of a word by removing prefix and suffix

asset stripping

exotoxin

Idioms (1)

生吞活剝

shēng tūn huó bō

to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically

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