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脬

pāo
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 bladder (classical)
  2. 2 measure word for urine or dung (dialectal)

Examples

古医书里膀胱有时写作脬。
Gǔ yīshū lǐ pángguāng yǒushí xiě zuò pāo.
In old medical texts the urinary bladder is sometimes written 脬.

Tips

history
脬 is barely used in modern Chinese, where the bladder is 膀胱. It joins the flesh radical ⺼ with 孚 for the sound. The same 孚 phonetic family includes 泡 and 孵.
register
Classical and dialectal; in standard modern Chinese the everyday word is 膀胱.

Components

radical
⺼ ròu
flesh; body
The flesh form ⺼ on the left, the body-organ marker found in 肝 and 肠. It tells you 脬 names an internal organ — the bladder.
phonetic
孚 fú
to brood; trust
孚 on the right carries the sound (fú giving pāo). The same phonetic recurs in 泡 and 孵, a clue to the reading.

Stroke Order

脬 pāo