薄

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

slight

HSK 4 N2

Abstract →Qualities

báo, bó

ハク

うす.い、うす-、-うす、うす.める、うす.まる、うす.らぐ、うす.ら-、うす.れる、すすき

박

Phonosemantic compound. 艹 represents the meaning and 溥 represents the sound.

Components

艹 grass (top)+ 溥 big =

薄 slight

艹 Meaning component

cao grass (top)

grass

艹 is a component form of 艸.

溥 Phonetic component

pǔ big

big, great, vast, wide

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Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

薄

Regular

Modern

Chinese

薄 [Bó]

surname Bo

薄 [báo]

thin; cold in manner; indifferent; weak; light; infertile

薄 [bó]

meager; slight; weak; ungenerous or unkind; frivolous; to despise; to belittle; to look down on; to approach or near

薄 [bò]

see 薄荷[bòhe]

Japanese

薄、芒ススキ、すすき同音

noun usually kana Chinese silvergrass (Miscanthus sinensis); maiden grass; susuki grass

薄うす同音

prefix light (e.g. colour, color)

Example Sentences

Japanese Names

薄うす

Usu surname

薄うすい

Usui surname

薄うすき

Usuki surname

薄すすき

Susuki surname

薄すずき

Suzuki surname

薄たかうす

Takausu surname

薄はく

Haku surname

CHINESE WORDS (131)

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JAPANESE WORDS (200)

lightweight fabric or clothing

⭐ 軽薄 [けいはく] #12,863

frivolous

薄汚れる [うすよごれる] #12,943

to get slightly dirty (all over)

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KOREAN WORDS (9)

경박

frivolity; flippancy; insincerity

미인박명

beauty is short-lived