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

supply / replenishment / to replenish
patch (for mending clothes, tires etc) / (software) patch
complementary / to complement each other
to make up for an earlier mistake / to make amends
to darn (clothing) / to sew and mend
to substitute / to complement in the proper order / to fill vacancies progressively
to fill a vacancy / to make up for a shortage / to supply a deficiency
to fill (up) / to replenish
complementary base pairing e.g. adenine A 腺嘌呤 pairs with thymine T 胸腺嘧啶 in DNA
to have a snack / to have a bite
to remedy / to make up for / benefit
one of three Ming dynasty sequels to Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记
a supplement / additional budget
to take a tonic (for one's health)
to replace (sth missing) / to restore
to fill a vacancy / to substitute for
to give an extra subsidy, or bonus etc / bonus / perquisite
tonic food (food considered to be particularly healthful) / to eat such foods

Sentences with 补

补 currently does not appear in any sentence.