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膊

bó
noun #35,451

Meanings

  1. 1 upper arm
  2. 2 shoulder (in compounds)

Examples

他光着膊在田里干活。
Tā guāng zhe bó zài tián lǐ gàn huó.
He worked bare-chested in the fields.
胳膊酸痛,可能是搬东西搬多了。
Gēbo suāntòng, kěnéng shì bān dōngxi bān duō le.
My arms ache; I probably carried too much.

Tips

usage
Rarely stands alone in modern Chinese — appears almost exclusively in compounds: 胳膊 (gēbo, arm), 赤膊 (chìbó, bare-chested), 光膊 (guāngbó, shirtless). The 月 (flesh) radical on the left marks it as a body-part character.

Stroke Order

膊 bó