胞
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placenta; womb; born of the same parents
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 9
- Radical
- 肉 +5
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 胞
- Common rank
- #762
- Unicode
- U+80DE
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
placenta · Heisig RSH #1745
part of the body + 包 wrap
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 胞
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 山地同胞 | (dated) Taiwanese indigenous peoples; Taiwanese aborigine | |
| 元胞自动机 | cellular automaton | |
| 细胞生物学 | cell biology | |
| 多细胞生物 | multicellular organism | |
| 单细胞生物 | unicellular organism | |
| 多形核白细胞 | polymorphonuclear leukocyte | |
| 正多胞形 | convex polytope | |
| 神经细胞 | nerve cell; neuron | |
| 多胞形 | polytope | |
| 细胞毒性 | cytotoxicity | |
| 女同胞 | woman; female; female compatriot | |
| 细胞色素 | cytochrome | |
| 胞子 | variant of 孢子[bao1 zi3] | |
| 子细胞 | daughter cell | |
| 山胞 | (dated) Taiwanese indigenous peoples; Taiwanese aborigine; abbr. for 山地同胞[shan1 di4 tong2 … | |
| 细胞学 | cytology | |
| 性细胞 | sexual cell; germline cell; gamete | |
| 白细胞 | white blood cell; leukocyte | |
| 体细胞 | somatic cell | |
| 神经胶质细胞 | glial cell (provide support to neuron); neuroglia |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 包 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 包 sound part | wrap, pack, bundle; package | |
| 炮 | cannon, artillery | |
| 跑 | to run, to flee, to escape | |
| 泡 | bubble, blister; swollen, puffed up | |
| 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 |