暴
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sudden; violent; cruel; to show or expose; to injure
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Dict coverage rank #690 U+66B4
How 暴 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A man with head 日 and hands 共 tormenting a deer 水
How to remember it
violent · Heisig RSH #2772
sun + 共 together + snowflake
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 暴 as their sound component
These characters all use 暴 (bào) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 暴 sound component | bào | violent, brutal, tyrannical |
| 曝 | pù | to air out, to expose to sunlight; to reveal |
Words containing 暴
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 暴力法 | bào lì fǎ | violent method; brute force |
| 雷克斯暴龙 | léi kè sī bào lóng | Tyrannosaurus rex |
| 太阳风暴 | tài yáng fēng bào | solar storm |
| 头脑风暴 | tóu nǎo fēng bào | brainstorming |
| 热带风暴 | rè dài fēng bào | tropical storm |
| 暴龙科 | bào lóng kē | Tyrannosauridae, the dinosaur family containing Tyrannosaurus |
| 非暴力 | fēi bào lì | nonviolent |
| 家暴 | jiā bào | domestic violence (abbr. for 家庭暴力[jia1 ting2 bao4 li4]) |
| 暴动 | bào dòng | insurrection; rebellion |
| 暴行 | bào xíng | savage act; outrage; atrocity |
| 暴发 | bào fā | to break out (of disease etc); to suddenly get rich (or prominent) |
| 暴力 | bào lì | violence; force; violent |
| 暴利 | bào lì | sudden huge profits |
| 暴风 | bào fēng | windstorm; (meteorology) storm (force 11 wind) |
| 风暴 | fēng bào | storm; violent commotion; fig. crisis (e.g. revolution, uprising, financial crisis etc) |
| 暴走族 | bào zǒu zú | people who go on walks for exercise; (Tw) rebel youth motorcycle group |
| 暴打 | bào dǎ | to beat viciously |
| 暴光 | bào guāng | exposure |
| 暴风雨 | bào fēng yǔ | rainstorm; storm; tempest |
| 暴病 | bào bìng | sudden attack of a serious illness |