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 replenish / to supplement / to complement / additional / supplementary / CL:個|个[ge4]
to take deferred time off (to make up for working during the weekend or holidays) / compensatory leave
to remedy defects and correct errors (idiom); to rectify past mistakes
the benefits of medicine are not as great as those of good nutrition
It's too late to plug the leak once ship is in the middle of the river. (idiom)
(gaming) to finish off a wounded combatant / (fig.) to attack sb who is already under fire / to pile on / (sphragistics) to retouch a seal after taking a first impression
to replace a lost or damaged SIM card, retaining one's original telephone number / SIM replacement
Sentences with 补
补 currently does not appear in any sentence.