剥
剝bō
#1,956 most
frequent character
to peel, to skin, to flay, to shuck
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
剥 bāo uses 刂 a knife as the picture part; 录 lù is the sound part, not clear in Mandarin. It first meant to pare off skin, then to shell. Read bō, it means to flay.
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