褓 (bǎo): (in 襁褓) cloth or quilt for wrap…

Meanings

他在襁褓之中就失去了父母。

Tā zài qiǎngbǎo zhī zhōng jiù shīqù le fùmǔ.

He lost his parents while still an infant in swaddling clothes.

两人从襁褓时就是好朋友。

Liǎng rén cóng qiǎngbǎo shí jiù shì hǎo péngyǒu.

The two had been friends since they were babies in swaddling clothes.

memory

Note the clothing radical plus 保 (to protect): 褓 is the protective cloth that keeps a baby safe, used only in 襁褓.

radical

衤 yī

clothing; cloth

The clothing radical, side form of 衣, marks 褓 as a cloth item, here a baby's wrapping quilt.

phonetic

保 bǎo

to protect; keep

Supplies the sound bǎo exactly and adds a faint sense of protecting, fitting a cloth that shields an infant. Seen standing alone as 保.

褓 bǎo