泡
2 readings · tap one to hear it
bubble; foam; blister; to soak; to steep; to infuse; to dawdle; to loiter; to pick up (a girl); to get off with (a sexual partner); classifier for occurrences of an action; classifier for number of infusions
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 水 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 泡
- Common rank
- #907
- Unicode
- U+6CE1
Sound it out + = · + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
bubbles · Heisig RSH #521
水 water + 包 wrap
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 泡
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一点水一个泡 | honest and trustworthy (idiom) | |
| 如法泡制 | see 如法炮製|如法炮制[ru2 fa3 pao2 zhi4] | |
| 脑子有泡 | soft in the head; brainless; dumb | |
| 气泡布 | bubble wrap | |
| 化为泡影 | (idiom) to come to nothing | |
| 气泡酒 | sparkling wine | |
| 泡菜国 | (slang) South Korea | |
| 泡病号 | to dilly-dally on the pretence of being ill; to malinger | |
| 泡菜球 | pickleball | |
| 泡子 | small lake; pond | |
| 泡子 | light bulb | |
| 水泡 | bubble; blister | |
| 泡水 | to infuse; to soak in water | |
| 发泡剂 | foaming agent; blowing agent | |
| 小泡 | vesicles | |
| 气泡 | bubble; blister (in metal); (of beverages) sparkling; carbonated | |
| 泡发 | to reconstitute (dried mushrooms, seaweed etc) | |
| 发泡 | to produce foam; (of a beverage) fizzy; sparkling | |
| 泡面 | instant noodles; (Tw) pirated software | |
| 电灯泡 | light bulb; (slang) unwanted third guest |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 包 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 包 sound part | wrap, pack, bundle; package | |
| 胞 | womb, placenta, fetal membrane | |
| 炮 | cannon, artillery | |
| 跑 | to run, to flee, to escape | |
| 饱 | satisfied; to eat one's fill | |
| 刨 | carpenter's plane; plane, level | |
| 孢 | spore | |
| 疱 | acne | |
| 鲍 | abalone; dried fish; surname | |
| 雹 | hail | |
| 庖 | kitchen; cooking, cuisine | |
| 狍 | a species of deer found in northern China | |
| 咆 | to roar | |
| 龅 | buck teeth | |
| 匏 | gourd; musical instrument |