博 bó
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 十 — ten, tenth
- Made of
- 十 ten, tenth 尃 to announce, to state
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
博大精深
bódàjīngshēn
broad and profound
Characters in this word
精 jīng
- Strokes
- 14
- Radical
- 米 — rice, millet, grain
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
深 shēn
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 氵 — water
- Made of
- 氵 water 罙 deep
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 汉字文化博大精深，学一辈子也学不完。 Hànzì wénhuà bódà jīngshēn, xué yíbèizi yě xué bù wán. The culture of Chinese characters is vast and profound; you could study it for a lifetime and never finish.
- 中国的茶文化博大精深，里面有很多讲究。 Zhōngguó de chá wénhuà bódà jīngshēn, lǐmiàn yǒu hěn duō jiǎngjiu. Chinese tea culture is broad and profound, with many fine points to it.
- 这位老先生对书法的理解博大精深，让我们十分佩服。 Zhè wèi lǎo xiānsheng duì shūfǎ de lǐjiě bódà jīngshēn, ràng wǒmen shífēn pèifú. This old gentleman's understanding of calligraphy is broad and profound, and we admire him greatly.
Related words
- 博客 bókè blog
- 博览会 bólǎnhuì exhibition
- 博士 bóshì doctorate; doctoral student
- 博物馆 bówùguǎn museum
- 微博 wēibó microblog
- 博学 bóxué learned; erudite
- 博弈 bóyì strategic game; strategic interaction
- 赌博 dǔbó gambling; to gamble
- 不大 búdà not very, not much
- 大 dà big, large; older
- 大学 dàxué university
- 大学生 dàxuéshēng university student