抱
bào HSK4

embrace

抱 bào
to harbor verb
to harbor or have in mind (certain thoughts or feelings, such as a grudge or hope)

不要抱太大希望。

bù​yào bào tài dà xī​wàng.

Don't get your hopes up.

to hold verb
to hold or carry in one's arms; to hug or embrace

她甚至从没抱过他！

tā shèn​zhì cóng​méi bào guo tā!

She never even held him!

就让我抱你一会儿吧。

jiù ràng wǒ bào nǐ yí​huì​r ba.

Just let me hold you for a bit.

breast noun
(literary) the chest; the part of the body between the chest and the abdomen; one's aspirations or inner heart
to encircle verb
to surround or encircle (e.g. a mountain or a wall)
armful
measure word for the amount that can be held in two arms
to adopt
to adopt (a child)
to hatch
to hatch; to brood; to sit on eggs
to fit
(colloquial) of clothing or shoes, to fit the body nicely
surname
a Chinese surname
to suffer from
to suffer from or be afflicted with (an illness)
to have a child
to have a child or grandchild for the first time

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,122nd most common 129.6 per million
Movie subtitles
289th most common 572.2 per million appears in 88% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
66.7 per million appears in 23% of films
Written text
109.5 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 4
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+62B1

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