to repair / to patch / to mend / to make up for / to fill (a vacancy) / to supplement

= + : 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

= + : 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.
see 蘿蔔|萝卜[luo2 bo5]
the left-radical form of Kangxi radical 145, 衣[yi1]

= + 丿 : Mnemonic symbol: a royal ermine coat.

Maud Younger used to wear a monk's cowl when leaving the space station, but when she got a royal ermine coat she gladly threw the monk's cowl out. Nowadays she uses to wave a petal leaf matching her new coat.

Characters with 补 as component

补 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 补

to mend (clothes) / to patch
see 拾遺補缺|拾遗补缺[shi2 yi2 bu3 que1]
to repair a tire
tire patch (for puncture repair)
to fill gaps with seedlings
to enrich the blood
to mend clothes
to make up for lost sleep
supplementary angle
to restock (an item) / to replenish inventory
complement / complementary material
complementary interval / addition musical interval adding to an octave
complement / complementary sum
variant of 補丁|补丁[bu3 ding5]
to restock (an item); to replenish inventory

Sentences with 补

补 currently does not appear in any sentence.