HSK 6 · Objects

包袱 bāofu “burden” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 包袱 means

  1. burden
  2. cloth-wrapped bundle
  3. wrapping cloth
  4. a bundle wrapped in cloth
  5. load
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • weight
  • funny part

How to say 包袱

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale包bāo1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the neutral tone: short and light, with no contour of its own袱funeutral tone, light and short

Grey pinyin is a neutral tone: say it short and light. More on the neutral tone

包袱 in a sentence

  1. 别把这件事当成包袱，放轻松点。

    Bié bǎ zhè jiàn shì dàngchéng bāofu, fàng qīngsōng diǎn.

    Don’t let this weigh on you. Relax a bit.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 她背着一个小包袱回了老家。

    Tā bēizhe yí ge xiǎo bāofu huí le lǎojiā.

    She went back to her hometown carrying a small bundle.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 包袱 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 包 (bāo) with each of its parts in a different colour
包bāoto cover
  • 勹wrap · bāo
  • 巳part of the character

Memory aidWrapping 勹 around a baby 巳: to wrap.

The character 袱 (fú) with each of its parts in a different colour
袱fúa cloth used to wrap or coverlight in 包袱
  • 衤clothes form of 衣 · yī
  • 伏to crouch · fú

How to write 包袱

包 5 strokes · 袱 11 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

包袱 (bāofu) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 包袱 (bāofu). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 包袱

Words with 包

书包shūbāo · schoolbag包bāo · to cover面包miànbāo · bread包子bāozi · bao (steamed stuffed bun)包括bāokuò · to comprise包裹bāoguǒ · parcel包含bāohán · to contain包围bāowéi · to surround打包dǎbāo · to pack up承包chéngbāo · to contract

More words: Objects & Materials

亿yì · 100 million银yín · silver原料yuánliào · raw material磅bàng · pound (weight)包装bāozhuāng · packaging把手bǎshou · handle便条biàntiáo · informal note标记biāojì · mark

FAQs

包袱 (bāofu) means “burden” or “cloth-wrapped bundle”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bāofu: bāo with a 1st tone, then fu with a neutral tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 包袱 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type baofu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 包袱 from the suggestions. Typing baofu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
包袱 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences written by WillyChina. Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.