趵

bào
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to leap; to spurt up
  2. 2 the sound of a foot stamping (classical)

Examples

HSK 7-9
Jǐnán de bào tū quán rìyè xiàngshàng pēnyǒng.
Baotu Spring in Jinan gushes up day and night.

Tips

history
趵 is not used alone in modern Chinese; it lives on almost only in 趵突泉 (Baotu Spring, the famous Jinan spring whose water leaps upward). The foot radical 足 gives a stamping / leaping image; 勺 supplies the sound.
register
Archaic and literary, encountered today almost only in the proper name 趵突泉 and classical text.

Components

radical
足 zú
foot
足 (foot) is the indexing radical; in 趵 it gives the idea of a stamping foot, extended to water that leaps and spurts upward.
phonetic
勺 sháo
phonetic element
勺 supplies the sound for 趵, with the reading drifting; it is the same phonetic seen in 豹 and 约.

Stroke Order

趵 bào