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包子

bāo zi 1–5

bao (steamed stuffed bun)

HSK level
HSK 1
HSK 2.0 level 5 · HSK 3.0 level 1
Characters
2
包 · 子
Syllables
2
bāo zi
Frequency
Rare
corpus count 16,315

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 包bāo5 strokesHSK 1wrap, pack, bundle; package
  • 子zǐ3 strokesHSK 1offspring, child; fruit, seed of; first earthly branch

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 包子. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

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