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 subsidize / subsidy / allowance / to supplement (one's salary etc) / benefit
to take extra lessons in a cram school or with a private tutor
cram class / cram school / evening classes
to sit for a makeup exam / to resit an exam / makeup exam / resit
to make up missed lesson / to reschedule a class
to fill a tooth (cavity) / to have a tooth filled / a dental filling
depot / supply station / supply point / staging post
to bring up to full strength / to make up a deficiency / to fill (a vacancy, gap etc)
to do sth after the time it should have been done / to do sth to make up for not having done it before / to reapply for (a lost document, card etc)
complementary color
to buy or upgrade a ticket after boarding a train, boat etc / to buy a ticket for a show after having sat down in the theater
complement (in blood serum)
old variant of 補缺|补缺[bu3 que1]
complement of a set
to charge (a battery)
variant of 補丁|补丁[bu3 ding5]
to take a tonic or nourishing food to build up one's health

Sentences with 补

补 currently does not appear in any sentence.