瀑

bào

Meanings

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bào

1.shower (rain)

pù

1.waterfall

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Wiktionary

1.waterfall
2.heavy rain
3.(river in Henan province)

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *boːwɢs, *boːɡ): semantic 氵 (“water”) + phonetic 暴 (OC *boːwɢs, *boːɡ) – waterfall. A conservative version is 𤄗, then the character was stylized into 瀑.

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Components

瀑氵暴

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Derived terms

壺口瀑布壶口瀑布懸瀑悬瀑瀑布瀑風瀑风飛瀑飞瀑

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Related words

瀑布 waterfall 飞瀑 waterfall 洛皮塔瀑布 Lawpita Falls on the Balu Chaung river, location of Myanmar's biggest hydroelectric plant 尼加拉瀑布 Niagara Falls (Tw)黄果树瀑布 Huangguoshu waterfalls, Anshun 安顺[Ān shùn], Guizhou 维多利亚瀑布 Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya on the Zambesi River, between Zambia and Zimbabwe 黄果树大瀑布 Huangguoshu falls, Anshun 安顺[Ān shùn], Guizhou 尼亚加拉瀑布 Niagara Falls