脬 (pāo) · bladder (classical), measure word for urine or dung

Meanings

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

Characters

脬

pāo

bladder (classical)

Examples

HSK 7-9

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

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