补
to repair / to patch / to mend / to make up for / to fill (a vacancy) / to supplement
补
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卜
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衤
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Bruno Bear (bu) broke his voodoo staff (卜) inside of the space station (Ø3) and he has nothing available than a royal ermine coat (衤). His staff means much more to him than the coat though, so he rips the royal ermine coat into stripes to fix (补) the staff with the stripes used as bandages.
补 character breakdown
(bound form) to divine / to forecast or estimate / (of a place to live etc) to choose
卜
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丨
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丶
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Mnemonic symbol from "to divine" and the shape of the character: a voodoo staff.
Bruno Bear (bu-) tries to divine (卜) the future in the space station's living room (Ø3). He places a petal (丶) in the middle of the room as an offering and starts a magic ritual with his voodoo staff (卜). The staff transforms the petal into a dinosaur bone (丨). Bruno divines that the staff was trying to tell him that all things are mortal and must come to an end.
Bruno Bear (bu-) tries to divine (卜) the future in the space station's living room (Ø3). He places a petal (丶) in the middle of the room as an offering and starts a magic ritual with his voodoo staff (卜). The staff transforms the petal into a dinosaur bone (丨). Bruno divines that the staff was trying to tell him that all things are mortal and must come to an end.
the left-radical form of Kangxi radical 145, 衣[yi1]
Characters with 补 as component
补
is not used as a component in another character.
Words with 补
to replace (a damaged component with a new one, an injured player with a substitute player, full-time workers with casual workers etc) / a substitute / a replacement
lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west (idiom); fig. temporary expedient / Rob Peter to pay Paul
to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient
hot patching (of insulating material in a furnace) / hot patching (runtime correction in computing)
lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west wall (idiom) / fig. to borrow from Peter to pay Paul
take from the long to supplement the short (idiom) / to offset each other's deficiencies / to complement each other
Sentences with 补
补 currently does not appear in any sentence.