Memory phrase for the character: 苞

苞

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Meaning flower calyx, petal, bud, luxuriant, profuse

Pronunciation

bāo

Explanation

Top: plant 艹, below: enwrap 包 (The wrap 勹 itself 己 makes it to be wrapped.)

Mnemonic
 
At the plants the 'enwrapping' are the flower calyx.

Radicals

艹 grass, plant
包 package, to cover, to wrapActually with a "snake" 巳, but simplified understood as a variation of self 己.
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 Vocabulary

苞粟 bāo sù  corn; maize
苞米 bāo mǐ  corn; maize (esp. northeast Mandarin)
开苞 kāi bāo  to deflower
苞藏祸心 bāo cáng huò xīn  to harbor evil intentions (idiom); concealing malice
苞藏祸心 bāo cáng huò xīn  

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