bǎo

fort; castle; hill or place name suffix

HSK 6 #1521

Character data

HSK 6
Frequency 1521st character
Radical ⼟ (32.9)
Strokes 12
Index # 2693

Definitions

堡 bǎo
  1. 1. used in place names, often as phonetic bao for "burg" or "bad"
  2. 2. castle
  3. 3. stronghold
  4. 4. position of defense
  5. 5. an earthwork
堡 pù
  1. 1. variant of
  2. 2. used in place names

Stroke order

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Words containing 堡

Word Meaning
castle; rook (chess piece)
hamburger (loanword); Hamburg (German city)
hamburger (loanword)
fort
pillbox (military fortification); blockhouse
Edinburgh, capital of Scotland
Saint Petersburg (city in Russia)
bunker (underground fortification)
Nürnberg or Nuremberg, town in Bavaria, Germany
Islamabad, capital of Pakistan
Luxembourg
Johannesburg, South Africa
ancient castle
Constantinople, capital of Byzantium
Williamsburg, Virginia
Strasbourg
Istanbul (Tw)
Hapsburg (European dynasty)
sandcastle
Brandenburg (e.g. gate, concertos)
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Humboldt
Heidelberg
Heidelberg; also written hǎi dé bǎo
Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976), German physicist
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