补 (補) bǔ
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bǔ
verb
to repair; to maintain
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CCD '补' 1; Guoyu '補' v 1; Kroll 2015 '補' 2, p. 29; Unihan '補') -
bǔ
verb
to supply; to fill
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CCD '补' 2; Guoyu '補' v 2) -
bǔ
noun
a nutrient
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CCD '补' 3; Guoyu '補' n 1) -
bǔ
verb
to help; to benefit
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CCD '补' 4; Guoyu '補' v 3; Kroll 2015 '補' 5, p. 29) -
bǔ
verb
to supplement
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CCD '补' 2; Guoyu '補' v 5; Kroll 2015 '補' 3, p. 29) -
bǔ
proper noun
Bu
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
Notes: (Guoyu '補' n 2) -
bǔ
verb
to patch clothing
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '補'; Kroll 2015 '補' 1, p. 29; Unihan '補') -
bǔ
verb
to fill an open position
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Kroll 2015 '補' 4, p. 29)
Contained in
- 虚不受补(虛不受補) a person who is in poor health cannot handle something so strong as a tonic
- 脑补(腦補) to imagine; to visualize
- 补养(補養) to take a tonic or nourishing food to build up one's health
- 缝补(縫補) to darn; to sew and mend
- 补种(補種) to reseed; to resow; to replant
- 补强(補強) to strengthen
- 无补(無補) of no avail; not helping in the least
- 补卡(補卡) to replace a lost or damaged SIM card, retaining one's original telephone number; SIM replacement
- 补足(補足) to bring up to full strength; to make up a deficiency
- 时量补语(时量補語) a complement of duration
- 补葺(補葺) to repair ; to revise
- 补白(補白) filler (in a newspaper or magazine)
- 官补(官補) a rank badge; a mandarin square
- 联邦医疗补助(聯邦醫療補助) Medicaid
- 补货(補貨) to restock (an item); to replenish inventory
- 补足音程(補足音程) complementary interval; addition musical interval adding to an octave
- 拾遗补缺(拾遺補缺) to remedy omissions and correct errors
- 补苗(補苗) to fill gaps with seedlings
- 补胎(補胎) to repair a tire
- 织补(織補) darning; to darn
- 补子 a rank badge; a mandarin square
- 配补(配補) to replace (something missing); to restore
- 补满(補滿) to make up for what is lacking; to fill (a vacancy); to replenish
- 增补(增補) to augment; to supplement; to add
- 笔补造化(筆補造化) creative writing
- 抵补(抵補) to compensate for; to make good
- 裨补(裨補) to remedy; to make up for; benefit
- 船到江心,补漏迟(船到江心,補漏遲) It's too late to plug the leak once ship is in the middle of the river.
- 补充量(補充量) complement; complementary quantity
- 补偿费(補償費) compensation
- 补给舰(補給艦) supply ship
- 候补名单(候補名單) waiting list
- 候补(候補) to be a candidate
- 补偏救弊(補偏救弊) to remedy defects and correct errors; to rectify past mistakes
- 小洞不堵,大洞难补(小洞不堵,大洞難補) If you don't plug the small hole, the big hole will be hard to repair; A stitch in time saves nine.
- 补习(補習) to take extra tuition
- 补遗(補遺) addendum
- 亡羊补牢(亡羊補牢) to fix the pen after the sheep have escaped; too late to solve the problem
- 补充医疗(補充醫療) complementary medicine
- 伤停补时(傷停補時) injury time
- 裨补阙漏(裨補闕漏) there will be no oversights or shortcomings
- 找补(找補) to make up the difference; to compensate
- 额外补贴(額外補貼) to give an extra subsidy, or bonus etc; bonus; perquisite
- 补回(補回) to make up for; to compensate
- 补缀(補綴) to mend (clothes); to patch
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婆啰吸摩补罗国 、 汉书补注 、 补特伽罗 、 香港增补字符集 、 修补程式 、 西游补
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Truncated for common words
- 卷八十三 志第三十三: 選舉三 Volume 83 Treatises 36: Selection of Officials 3 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 187
- 卷一百五十七 志第一百一十 選舉三 Volume 157 Treatises 110: Selection and appointment of Officials 3 History of Song 宋史 — count: 109
- 卷十八 趙一 Chapter 18: Zhao I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 106
- 卷三十 燕二 Chapter 30: Yan II Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 97
- 卷三 秦一 Chapter 3: Qin I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 96
- 卷五 秦三 Chapter 5: Qin III Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 93
- 卷二十 趙三 Chapter 20: Zhao III Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 91
- 卷二十六 韓一 Chapter 26: Han I Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 88
- 卷二十一 趙四 Chapter 21: Zhao IV Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 84
- 卷十九 趙二 Chapter 19: Zhao II Stratagems of the Warring States 戰國策 — count: 80
Collocations
- 补不足 (補不足) 春省耕而補不足 — Mencius 孟子, 梁惠王下 King Hui of Liang II — count: 12
- 补官 (補官) 則足以補官之不善政 — Guanzi 管子, 匡君小匡第二十 Chapter 20: Kuang Jun Xiao Kuang — count: 6
- 补吏 (補吏) 諸買武功爵官首者試補吏 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《平準書》 Equalization — count: 5
- 试补 (試補) 諸買武功爵官首者試補吏 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《平準書》 Equalization — count: 5
- 补短 (補短) 斷長補短 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《王制》 Royal Regulations — count: 4
- 有余补 (有餘補) 故以有餘補不足 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 觀行第二十四 Chapter 24: Observing Behavior — count: 3
- 补县 (補縣) 嬰已而試補縣吏 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《樊酈滕灌列傳》 Biographies of Fan, Li, Teng and Guan — count: 3
- 补郎 (補郎) 入財者得補郎 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《平準書》 Equalization — count: 3
- 军补 (軍補) 然蕭何常從關中遣軍補其處 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《蕭相國世家》 House of Chancellor Xiao — count: 2
- 补缝 (補縫) 而補縫過失之闕者也 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷二十一 要略 Chapter 21: Summary — count: 2