薄 báo

1. báo adjective thin; slight; weak
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Another pronunciation, similar to the senses for bó (Guoyu '薄' báo; Unihan '薄')
2. bó adjective thin
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 不厚的 (Guoyu '薄' adj 1; Unihan '薄')
3. bó adjective sparse; infrequent; thinly spread
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 稀疏 (Guoyu '薄' adj 2)
4. bó adjective lowly; mean and low
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: 薄 is synonymous with 卑贱 in this sense (Guoyu '薄' adj 5)
5. bò noun field mint; peppermint
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink , Concept: Herb 草本
   Notes: 薄 is synonymous with 薄荷 in this sense (Guoyu '薄' bò)
6. bó adjective insincere
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: 薄 is synonymous with 不敦厚 in this sense (Guoyu '薄' adj 6)
7. bó adjective barren; infertile
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: Of land, 薄 is synonymous with 贫瘠 in this sense (Guoyu '薄' adj 3)
8. báo adjective too insignificant to mention
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: In the sense of 微不足道 (Guoyu '薄' adj 4)
9. bó adjective disrespectful
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: 薄 is synonymous with 不尊重 in this sense (Guoyu '薄' adj 7)
10. bó noun a thicket
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of a place where bushes grow (Guoyu '薄' n 1)
11. bó noun a curtain
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 帘子 (Guoyu '薄' n 2)
12. bó proper noun Bo
    Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
    Notes: (Guoyu '薄' n 3)
13. bó verb to decrease; to reduce; to weaken
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 减损 (Guoyu '薄' v 1)
14. bó verb to approach
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 迫近 or 接近 (Guoyu '薄' v 2)
15. bó verb to adhere
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 附着 (Guoyu '薄' v 3)
16. bó verb to invade
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 侵入 (Guoyu '薄' v 4)
17. bó verb to despise; to disdain
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: In the sense of 鄙视 (Guoyu '薄' v 5)

Contained in

• 妄自菲薄 to be excessively humble and not show self-esteem
• 浮薄 frivolous; philandering
• 薄透镜(薄透鏡) thin lens (optics)
• 薄田 barren field; poor land
• 薄厚 meanness and generosity; intimacy and alienation
• 淡薄 thin ; light; flagging; faint
• 薄荷油 peppermint oil
• 峭薄 stingy; unkind
• 薄食 to eclipse
• 厚养薄葬(厚養薄葬) generous care but a thrifty funeral
• 义薄云天(義薄雲天) supremely honorable and righteous
• 轻徭薄赋(輕徭薄賦) to reduce forced labor and levy slight taxes
• 德薄能鲜(德薄能鮮) little virtue and meager abilities
• 材轻德薄(材輕德薄) lacking ability and scant virtue
• 薄情 inconstant in love; fickle
• 薄弱环节(薄弱環節) weak link; loophole
• 薄明 dim light; early dawn
• 功微德薄 little merit and scant virtue
• 红颜薄命(紅顏薄命) beautiful women suffer unhappy fates
• 贫嘴薄舌(貧嘴薄舌) garrulous and sharp-tongued
• 厚此薄彼 to favour one and discriminate against the other
• 德薄才疏 scant virtue and lacking ability
• 才轻德薄(才輕德薄) lacking ability and scant virtue
• 厌薄(厭薄) to despise; to look down upon
• 薄片 thin slice; thin section; flake
• 瘠薄 (of land) infertile; barren
• 薄雾(薄霧) mist; haze
• 薄板 a sheet; lamina
• 薄纱(薄紗) gauze (cloth)
• 脸薄(臉薄) bashful; shy
• 穷家薄业(窮家薄業) poor and with few means of subsistance; destitute
• 薄利 small profits
• 薄脆 crispy; thin and brittle; a crispy fried cracker
• 喷薄欲出(噴薄欲出) to be on the verge of eruption; (of the sun) to emerge in all its brilliance
• 轻嘴薄舌(輕嘴薄舌) light mouth, thin tongue; hasty and rude; caustic and sharp-tongued
• 硗薄(磽薄) barren; infertile
• 蚕薄(蠶薄) tray of straw for raising silkworms
• 薄荷酮 menthone
• 才疏德薄 lacking ability and scant virtue
• 薄利多销(薄利多銷) small profit but rapid turnover
• 薄晓(薄曉) at dawn
• 摊薄(攤薄) dilution
• 厚死薄生 to praise the dead and revile the living; to live in the past
• 喷薄(噴薄) to gush; to squirt; to surge; to well out; to overflow
• 俭薄(儉薄) lacking; stingy
• 衣单食薄(衣單食薄) thin coat, meager food; life of wretched poverty; destitute
• 稀薄 thin; rarefied
• 薄命 to be born under an unlucky star; to be born unlucky

Also contained in

薄熙来 、 薄一波 、 薄伽丘

Word is mentioned most frequently in

Truncated for common words

• 卷二十六 Scroll 26 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 21
• 卷二十二 Scroll 22 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 20
• 卷四十三 朱樂何列傳 Volume 43: Biographies of Zhu, Yue, He Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 17
• 卷十九 Scroll 19 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 14
• 卷十八 Scroll 18 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 14
• 卷七 Scroll 7 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 13
• 卷二十 Scroll 20 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 13
• 卷三十四 Scroll 34 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 13
• 卷十二 Scroll 12 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 13
• 卷二十七 Scroll 27 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 12

Collocations

• 薄言 (薄言) 薄言采之 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 國風‧周南‧芣苢 Lessons from the states - Odes Of Zhou And The South - Fu Yi — count: 20
• 薄赋敛 (薄賦斂) 薄賦斂 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 成公 Lord Cheng — count: 4
• 薄纯 (薄純) 藏薄純 — Guanzi 管子, 幼官第八 Chapter 8: Young Officials — count: 4
• 薄伐 (薄伐) 薄伐西戎 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 小雅‧鹿鳴之什‧出車 Minor odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Lu Ming - Chu Che — count: 3
• 薄税 (薄稅) 薄稅斂 — Mencius 孟子, 梁惠王上 King Hui of Liang I — count: 3
• 薄敛 (薄斂) 薄斂 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 昭公 Lord Zhao — count: 3
• 薄采 (薄采) 薄采其芹 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 魯頌‧駉之什‧泮水 Sacrificial odes of Zhou - Decade Of Jiong - Pan Shui — count: 3
• 薄之中 (薄之中) 隱於榛薄之中 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷一　原道訓 Chapter 1: The Original Way — count: 2
• 薄夫 (薄夫) 薄夫敦 — Mencius 孟子, 萬章下 Wan Zhang II — count: 2
• 行薄 (行薄) 行薄純 — Guanzi 管子, 幼官第八 Chapter 8: Young Officials — count: 2