苞 bāo

1. bāo noun a flower bud; flower calyx
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '苞'; Guoyu '苞' n 1; Kroll 2015 '苞' 4a, p. 10)
2. bāo adjective luxuriant; profuse
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '苞' 5, p. 10)
3. bāo verb to wrap
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: As a variant of 包 (Guoyu '苞' v 1; Kroll 2015 '苞' 6, p. 10)
4. bāo noun bulrush; reed
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '苞' n 2; Kroll 2015 '苞' 2, p. 10; Unihan '苞')
5. bāo adjective firm; enduring
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Unihan '苞')
6. bāo verb to burst forth
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Unihan '苞')
7. bāo noun pomelo
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '苞' 3, p. 10)
8. bāo noun rind of fruit
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '苞' 4b, p. 10)
9. bāo verb to contain
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '苞' v 2)
10. bāo noun snoutbean
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '苞' 1, p. 10)

Contained in

• 苞藏祸心(苞藏禍心) to harbor evil intentions; concealing malice
• 含苞 (of a plant) to be in bud
• 花苞 flower bud
• 苞米 corn
• 开苞(開苞) to deflower
• 苞片 bract
• 苞粟 corn; maize
• 含苞待放 in bud; budding

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷三十三 列傳第三 王祥 鄭沖 何曾 石苞 Volume 33 Biographies 3: Wang Xiang; Zheng Chong; He Zeng; Shi Bao Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 54
• 第六十二回 Chapter 62 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 28
• 第八十二回 Chapter 82 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 26
• 第八十一回 Chapter 81 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 19
• 第九十四回 Chapter 94 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 14
• 第八十三回 Chapter 83 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 14
• 第九十二回 Chapter 92 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 14
• 卷八十一 獨行列傳 Volume 81: Biographies of Loners Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 11
• 卷一百〇七 載記第七 石季龍（石虎）下 Volume 107 Records 7: Shi Jilong Part Two Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 10
• 卷四十九 列傳第四十三 文學上 Volume 49: Men of Letters 1 Book of Liang 梁書 — count: 9

Collocations

• 石苞 (石苞) 石苞鬻鐵於長安 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷四 魏書四 三少帝紀 Volume 4: Book of Wei 4 - Annals of the three young emperors — count: 16
• 苞苴 (苞苴) 苞苴 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《曲禮上》 Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 1 — count: 12
• 苞曰 (苞曰) 春秋元命苞曰 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十四上 袁紹劉表列傳 Volume 74a: Biographies of Yuan Shao, Liu Biao 1 — count: 4
• 命苞 (命苞) 春秋元命苞曰 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷七十四上 袁紹劉表列傳 Volume 74a: Biographies of Yuan Shao, Liu Biao 1 — count: 4
• 苞茅 (苞茅) 爾貢苞茅不入 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷六十七 黨錮列傳 Volume 67: Biographies of Partisan Prohibitions — count: 4
• 蔺苞 (藺苞) 遣中郎將藺苞 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九十四下 匈奴傳 Volume 94b: Traditions of the Xiongnu 2 — count: 3
• 苞桑 (苞桑) 集于苞桑 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧唐‧鴇羽 Lessons from the states - Odes of Tang - Bao Yu — count: 3
• 赵苞 (趙苞) 赵苞 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷八十一 獨行列傳 Volume 81: Biographies of Loners — count: 3
• 史苞 (史苞) 張掖都尉史苞 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷二十三 竇融列傳 Volume 23: Biography of Dou Rong — count: 3
• 封苞 (封苞) 莽封苞為宣威公 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷九十四下 匈奴傳 Volume 94b: Traditions of the Xiongnu 2 — count: 2