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

• 薄厚 meanness and generosity; intimacy and alienation
• 薄礼(薄禮) my meager gift (humble)
• 刻薄 unkind; harsh
• 日薄西山 the sun setting behind the Western Hills
• 薄片 thin slice; thin section; flake
• 薄膜 membrane; film
• 俭薄(儉薄) lacking; stingy
• 才疏德薄 lacking ability and scant virtue
• 厌薄(厭薄) to despise; to look down upon
• 德薄才疏 scant virtue and lacking ability
• 厚死薄生 to praise the dead and revile the living; to live in the past
• 薄地 barren land; poor soil ; stage of diminished [defilements]; tanūbhūmi
• 轻口薄舌(輕口薄舌) light mouth, thin tongue; hasty and rude; caustic and sharp-tongued
• 喷薄欲出(噴薄欲出) to be on the verge of eruption; (of the sun) to emerge in all its brilliance
• 薄情 inconstant in love; fickle
• 硗薄(磽薄) barren; infertile
• 薄荷 field mint; peppermint
• 薄弱 weak; frail
• 脸薄(臉薄) bashful; shy
• 薄暮 dusk; twilight
• 临深履薄(臨深履薄) facing an abyss, walking on thin ice
• 绵薄(綿薄) my humble effort; my meager contribution (humble)
• 薄养厚葬(薄養厚葬) to neglect one's parents but give them a rich funeral
• 薄酒 dilute wine; insipid wine
• 峭薄 stingy; unkind
• 薄暗 at dusk; evening
• 尖酸刻薄 sharp and unkind (words)
• 义薄云天(義薄雲天) supremely honorable and righteous
• 稀薄 thin; rarefied
• 薄荷油 peppermint oil
• 鄙薄 to despise; to scorn
• 刻薄寡恩 harsh and merciless
• 喷薄(噴薄) to gush; to squirt; to surge; to well out; to overflow
• 薄弱环节(薄弱環節) weak link; loophole
• 厚积薄发(厚積薄發) to have accumulated knowledge and deliver it slowly; good preparation is the key to success
• 薄食 to eclipse
• 淡薄 thin ; light; flagging; faint
• 厚古薄今 to revere the past and neglect the present
• 薄酬 small reward (for work); meager remuneration
• 薄脆 crispy; thin and brittle; a crispy fried cracker
• 薄技 meager skill; my poor talents (humble)
• 衣单食薄(衣單食薄) thin coat, meager food; life of wretched poverty; destitute
• 金属薄片(金屬薄片) foil
• 厚此薄彼 to favour one and discriminate against the other
• 脸皮薄(臉皮薄) thin-skinned; sensitive
• 薄雾(薄霧) mist; haze

Also contained in

淫薄健国 、 地薄饼 、 薄一波 、 薄瑞光 、 薄层

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
• 卷十二 Scroll 12 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 13
• 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
• 卷二十七 Scroll 27 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 13

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
• 薄罪 (薄罪) 小罪入以金鈞分宥薄罪 — Guanzi 管子, 匡君小匡第二十 Chapter 20: Kuang Jun Xiao Kuang — count: 2
• 薄德 (薄德) 義士猶曰薄德 — The Commentary of Zuo on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋左氏傳, 僖公 Lord Xi — count: 2
• 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