柏

bò
#1,594 most
frequent character
used in 黃柏|黄柏[huang2bo4]

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

柏 pairs 木, a tree, with 白 bái as the sound part. It names a type of tree, the cypress or cedar. Read bǎi for that tree. Read bò, it can mean tree or tree bark.

Drawn as: a tree

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Same Characters, Different Readings

柏Bai3
surname Bai, Taiwan pr. [Bo2]
柏bǎi
cedar, cypress, Taiwan pr. [bo2]
柏bó
(used for transcribing names)
柏bǎi
variant of 柏[bai3]

Homophones

薄bò
see 薄荷[bo4 he5]

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