verb #9,020

Meanings

  1. 1 to anchor; to moor (a boat)
  2. 2 to park (a vehicle)
  3. 3 lake; marsh (noun usage)

Examples

Chuán bó zài gǎngkǒu.
The boat is moored in the harbor.
Zhèlǐ kěyǐ bó chē ma?
Can I park here?
Liáng shān Pō shì 《 Shuǐhǔzhuàn 》 zhōng de dìmíng.
Liangshan Marsh is a place name in Water Margin.

Tips

usage
has two pronunciations: bó (to moor, to park) and pō (lake, as in 湖泊 húpō and ). (bóchē, to park) is more common in Cantonese-speaking areas and Hong Kong.
memory
(water radical) + (white). Picture a white boat resting on calm water — moored in place.

Components

radical
shuǐ
water
Three water drops on the left — the side-form of — mark as something to do with water. It anchors the boat-mooring sense and groups with , , , the wider water-body and water-action family.
phonetic
bái
white; bright
Lends its sound, drifting from bái to bó. It heads a small phonetic series including , and that all share the sound stem. The white meaning is unrelated to mooring boats.

In Pop Culture

Liángsān Pō
Liangshan Marsh
Legendary outlaw hideout in the classic novel Water Margin

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