bào
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to leap; to spurt up (used in 趵突)
  2. 2 the sound of a foot stamping (classical)

Examples

Jǐnán de bào tū quán rìyè xiàngshàng pēnyǒng.
Baotu Spring in Jinan gushes up day and night.

Tips

history
is not used alone in modern Chinese; it lives on almost only in (Baotu Spring, the famous Jinan spring whose water leaps upward). The foot radical gives a stamping / leaping image; supplies the sound.
register
Archaic and literary, encountered today almost only in the proper name and classical text.

Components

radical
foot
(foot) is the indexing radical; in it gives the idea of a stamping foot, extended to water that leaps and spurts upward.
phonetic
sháo
phonetic element
supplies the sound for , with the reading drifting; it is the same phonetic seen in and .

Stroke Order

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