薄 báo
- Strokes
- 16
- Radical
- 艹 — grass, weed, plant, herb
- Made of
- 艹 grass, weed, plant, herb 溥 big, great, vast
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
薄弱
bóruò
weak
Characters in this word
弱 ruò
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 弓 — bow
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 他的中文薄弱。 Tā de Zhōngwén bóruò. His Chinese is weak.
- 我数学薄弱。 Wǒ shùxué bóruò. I am weak in math.
- 这里基础薄弱。 Zhèlǐ jīchǔ bóruò. The foundation here is weak.