伯

bó

father's elder brother

senior; paternal elder uncle; eldest of brothers; respectful form of address; Count, third of five orders of nobility 五等爵位[wu3 deng3 jue2 wei4]

person (亻) + white (白) = the elder uncle figure

The person radical grounds this character in human relationships. 白 mainly contributes the bó sound; the seniority meaning likely extends from an older sense of 'head' or 'chief' among people.

亻+白→伯
亻A personSemantic
白WhitePhonetic

我小时候常去伯父家吃饭。

wǒ xiǎo shí hou cháng qù bó fù jiā chī fàn 。

When I was little, I often went to my father's elder brother's home to eat.

他是欧洲一个古老家族的伯爵。

tā shì ōu zhōu yī gè gǔ lǎo jiā zú de bó jué 。

He is a count of an old European family.

Words with 伯

阿尔伯特

ā ěr bó tè

Albert (name)

张伯伦

zhāng bó lún

Chamberlain (name)

罗伯逊

luó bó xùn

Robertson (name)

伯利恒

bó lì héng

Bethlehem (in the biblical nativity story)

唐伯虎

táng bó hǔ

Tang Bohu or Tang Yin 唐寅 (1470-1523), Ming painter and poet, one of Four great southern talents of the Ming 江南四大才子

坎特伯雷

kǎn tè bó léi

Canterbury

刘伯温

liú bó wēn

Liu Bowen (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1], with a reputation as a military genius, also called Liu Ji 劉基|刘基[Liu2 Ji1]

亚伯拉罕

yà bó lā hǎn

(name) Abraham

希伯来文

xī bó lái wén

Hebrew (language)

邵伯湖

shào bó hú

Shaobo Lake, freshwater lake in Jiangsu Province

都伯林

dū bó lín

also written 都柏林

里长伯

lǐ zhǎng bó

neighborhood warden

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