剥
bāobō HSK7

peel

剥 (剝) bāo frequency
peel verb
to remove the outer skin, rind, or covering of a fruit, vegetable, or animal

他正在剥橘子。

tā zhèng​zài bāo jú​zi.

He is peeling an orange.

shell verb
to remove the hard outer covering, husk, or pod from seeds, nuts, or corn

孩子们围在一起剥花生。

hái​zi men wéi zài​yī​qǐ bāo huā​shēng.

The children gathered around to shell peanuts.

剥 (剝) bō
skin verb
to strip the skin or hide from an animal or person

猎人把鹿皮剥了下来。

liè​rén bǎ lù​pí bō le xià​lai.

The hunter skinned the deer.

peel verb
to remove the outer layer, husk, or shell of fruits, vegetables, or nuts

这种工业设备能自动剥开各类坚果的硬壳。

zhè zhǒng gōng​yè shè​bèi néng zì​dòng bō kāi gè lèi jiān​guǒ de yìng ké.

This industrial equipment can automatically shell various kinds of hard-shelled nuts.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,959th most common 38.8 per million
Movie subtitles
2,127th most common 15.9 per million appears in 8% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
9.66 per million appears in 3% of films
Written text
8.79 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Traditional
剝
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+5265

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)