bào

violent

Original meaning: 

expose to sun

Depicts two hands () laying out rice () to dry under the sun (), representing the meaning "expose to sun", now written as . The meaning later shifted to "expose", "injure", and "violent".

Components
日 iconic component

  Iconic component

  

sun

共 iconic component

  Iconic component

gòng

  

together with

Depicts two hands.

米 iconic component

  Iconic component

  

rice

Evolution

暴 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
暴 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
暴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
暴 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

bào

violent, brutal, tyrannical; sudden; violent; cruel; to show or expose; to injure

 

Bào

surname Bao

Most common words with 暴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

暴力

violence

暴露

to expose

sudden

风暴

storm

暴雨

rainstorm

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 3 characters (2 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ˤawk-s

bawH

bào

violent

*m-pˤawk

buwk

expose to sun


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 43.9692% of movies

932nd most common character in movies

1028th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+66B4

Shuowen

“曓,疾有所趣也。从日出廾之。”


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