HSK 3 · Food

饱 bǎo “eat until full” in Chinese

Traditional 飽

What 饱 means

  1. eat until full
  2. satisfied
  3. to eat till full

How to say 饱

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale饱bǎo3rd tone, dipping

饱 in a sentence

  1. 不，谢谢，我饱了。

    Bù, xièxie, wǒ bǎo le.

    No, thanks. I’m full.

    Sentence #430995 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 我吃饱了！

    Wǒ chī bǎo le!

    I’m full!

    Sentence #902097 from Tatoeba

  3. 她一个接着一个不停地吃糖果，直到吃饱了为止。

    Tā yí ge jiēzhe yí ge bùtíng de chī tángguǒ, zhídào chī bǎo le wéizhǐ.

    She ate one lolly after another until she was completely full.

    Sentence #2357603 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 饱 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 饱 (bǎo) with each of its parts in a different colour
饱bǎoto eat till full
  • 饣eat form of 食 · shíMeaning part
  • 包wrap · bāoSound part

饣 hints at the meaning (eat); 包 (bāo) hints at the sound. Compare it with bǎo.

How to write 饱

饱 8 strokes

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

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

Words related to 饱

Words with 饱

饱和bǎohé · saturated饱经沧桑bǎojīngcāngsāng · to have lived through many ups and downs

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FAQs

饱 (bǎo) means “eat until full” or “satisfied”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it bǎo: bǎo with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 饱 is written 飽. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type bao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 饱 from the suggestions. Typing bao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
饱 is an HSK 3 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 from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.