HSK 6 · Science

饱和 bǎohé “saturated” in Chinese

Traditional 飽和

What 饱和 means

  1. saturated
  2. saturation
  3. filled to capacity

How to say 饱和

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale饱bǎo3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale和hé2nd tone, rising

饱和 in a sentence

  1. 这个市场已经饱和了。

    Zhè ge shìchǎng yǐjīng bǎohé le.

    This market is already saturated.

    Sentence by WillyChina

  2. 水里的盐已经饱和，不能再溶解了。

    Shuǐ lǐ de yán yǐjīng bǎohé, bùnéng zài róngjiě le.

    The water is saturated with salt and can’t dissolve any more.

    Sentence by WillyChina

How 饱和 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.

The character 和 (hé) with each of its parts in a different colour
和héand; together with; with
  • 禾grain · héSound part
  • 口mouth · kǒuMeaning part

口 hints at the meaning (mouth); 禾 (hé) hints at the sound. Compare it with hé.

How to write 饱和

饱 8 strokes · 和 8 strokes

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

Words related to 饱和

Words with 饱

饱bǎo · eat until full饱经沧桑bǎojīngcāngsāng · to have lived through many ups and downs

Words with 和

和hé · and暖和nuǎnhuo · warm和平hépíng · peace附和fùhè · to echo (someone’s views)缓和huǎnhé · to ease调和tiáohé · to reconcile和蔼hé'ǎi · kindly和睦hémù · harmonious和气héqi · friendly和谐héxié · harmonious

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学术xuéshù · academic硬件yìngjiàn · hardware预报yùbào · forecast注册zhùcè · to register备份bèifèn · to back up标本biāoběn · specimen操作cāozuò · to operate测量cèliáng · to measure

FAQs

饱和 (bǎohé) means “saturated” or “saturation”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bǎohé: bǎo with a 3rd tone, then hé with a 2nd 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, 饱和 is written 飽和. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type baohe with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 饱和 from the suggestions. Typing baohe into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
饱和 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.