泊
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to moor (a boat); to park (a vehicle); (literary) calm; quiet; peaceful
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,013 U+6CCA
How 泊 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
氵 (semantic, “water”) + 白 (phonetic, bái)
How to remember it
moor · Heisig RSH #1532
水 water + dove
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 白
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 白 (bái) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 白 sound component | bái | white; clear, pure, unblemished; bright |
| 百 | bǎi | one hundred; numerous, many |
| 伯 | bó | older brother; father's elder brother; sir, sire, count |
| 拍 | pāi | to clap, to tap; to hit, to beat, to slap; beat, rhythm |
| 柏 | bǎi | cypress, cedar |
| 怕 | pà | to fear, to be afraid of; apprehensive |
| 迫 | pò | to compel, to force; pressing, urgent |
| 魄 | pò | vigor, soul, body; the dark side of the moon |
| 帛 | bó | silk, fabric; wealth, property |
| 舶 | bó | large ship, ocean-going vessel |
| 粕 | pò | sediment, lees, dregs |
| 铂 | bó | platinum; thin sheet metal |
Words containing 泊
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 尼泊尔王国 | Ní bó ěr Wáng guó | Kingdom of Nepal |
| 代客泊车 | dài kè bó chē | valet parking |
| 泊松分布 | Bó sōng fēn bù | Poisson distribution (in statistics) |
| 泊头市 | Bó tóu Shì | Botou, a county-level city in Cangzhou City 滄州市|沧州市[Cang1 zhou1 Shi4], Hebei |
| 尼泊尔 | Ní bó ěr | Nepal |
| 罗布泊 | Luó bù pō | Lop Nor, former salt lake in Xinjiang, now a salt-encrusted lake bed |
| 接泊车 | jiē bó chē | shuttle bus |
| 淡泊名利 | dàn bó míng lì | not caring about fame and fortune (idiom); indifferent to worldly rewards |
| 淡泊明志 | dàn bó míng zhì | living a simple life as one's ideal (idiom) |
| 泊头 | Bó tóu | see 泊頭市|泊头市[Bo2 tou2 Shi4] |
| 泊车 | bó chē | to park a vehicle |
| 尼泊尔鹪鹛 | Ní bó ěr jiāo méi | (bird species of China) Nepal cupwing; immaculate cupwing; Nepal wren-babbler (Pnoepyga im… |
| 血泊 | xuè pō | pool of blood |
| 泊位 | bó wèi | berth (for a ship); parking space (for a vehicle) |
| 落泊 | luò bó | down and out; in dire straits; unrestrained; unconventional |
| 系泊 | jì bó | to moor |
| 泊松 | Bó sōng | S.D. Poisson (1781-1840), French mathematician; also pr. [Po1 song1] |
| 湖泊 | hú pō | lake |
| 泊船 | bó chuán | to moor a boat or ship |
| 莫泊桑 | Mò bó sāng | Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), French novelist and short story writer |