胞

bāo

placenta

womb; born of the same parents

flesh (⺼) + wrap sound (包) = womb that holds

The flesh radical grounds the meaning in the body — the womb as flesh that wraps and contains. 包 gives the sound bāo and happens to evoke wrapping, though its role here is primarily phonetic.

⺼+包→胞
⺼FleshSemantic
包To wrapPhonetic

他们是胞兄弟,从小一起长大。

tā men shì bāo xiōng dì, cóng xiǎo yī qǐ zhǎng dà。

They are brothers born of the same parents, and grew up together from childhood.

她和她的胞妹感情非常好,什么事都会分享。

tā hé tā de bāo mèi gǎn qíng fēi cháng hǎo, shén me shì dōu huì fēn xiǎng。

She and her full sister have a very close relationship and share everything with each other.

Words with 胞

细胞核

xì bāo hé

nucleus (of cell)

生殖细胞

shēng zhí xì bāo

germ cell; reproductive cell

液胞

yè bāo

vacuole

造血干细胞

zào xuè gàn xì bāo

blood generating stem cells (in bone marrow)

连体双胞胎

lián tǐ shuāng bāo tāi

conjoined twins

远端胞浆

yuǎn duān bāo jiāng

distal cytoplasm

镰刀细胞贫血

lián dāo xì bāo pín xuè

sickle cell anemia

镰状细胞血症

lián zhuàng xì bāo xuè zhèng

sickle cell anemia

间充质干细胞

jiān chōng zhì gàn xì bāo

mesenchymal stem cell MSC (in cell biology)

双胞胎

shuāng bāo tāi

twin

体细胞

tǐ xì bāo

somatic cell

鳞状细胞癌

lín zhuàng xì bāo ái

squamous cell carcinoma

More characters with ⺼

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