剥
2 readings · tap one to hear it
to peel; to skin; to shell; to shuck
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 刀 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 剝
- Common rank
- #2,207
- Unicode
- U+5265
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
peel off · Heisig RSH #2207
snowman + saber
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 剥
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 资产剥离 | asset stripping | |
| 剥皮器 | peeler (e.g. for vegetables) | |
| 生吞活剥 | to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically | |
| 剥采比 | stripping-to-ore ratio; stripping ratio | |
| 剥皮 | to skin; to flay; to peel; (fig.) (coll.) to haul (sb) over the coals; also pr. [bo1pi2] | |
| 剥落 | to peel off | |
| 盘剥 | to exploit; to practice usury | |
| 剥离 | to peel; to strip; to peel off; to come off (of tissue, skin, covering etc) | |
| 现剥 | (of fruit, prawns etc) peeled on the spot; Taiwan pr. [xian4bo1] | |
| 斑剥 | mottled and peeling off in places | |
| 剥除 | to strip off; to peel off; to remove (esp. unwanted parts) | |
| 被剥削者 | person suffering exploitation; the workers in Marxist theory | |
| 剥削者 | exploiter (of labor) | |
| 剥皮钳 | wire stripper | |
| 剥削阶级 | exploiting class (in Marxist theory) | |
| 剥掉 | to peel off; to strip off | |
| 刻剥 | to grab money; to exploit | |
| 鲜剥 | (of fruit, prawns etc) freshly peeled; Taiwan pr. [xian1bo1] | |
| 抽丝剥茧 | (lit.) to unwind the silk thread from the cocoon (idiom); (fig.) to unravel a mystery; to … | |
| 剥啄 | (onom.) tap (on a door or window) |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 录 — compare how they read.