補
bǔ HSK3

mend, patch

补 (補) bǔ
make up for verb
to compensate for a deficiency, loss, or mistake

他正努力学习，想把落下的功课补回来。

tā zhèng nǔ​lì xué​xí, xiǎng bǎ luò​xià de gōng​kè bǔ huí​lai.

He is studying hard, trying to catch up on the schoolwork he missed.

repair verb
to mend, patch, or fix a physical object that is damaged

我的衣服破了一个洞，需要补一下。

wǒ de yī​fu pò le yī gè dòng, xū​yào bǔ yī​xià.

There is a hole in my clothes that needs to be mended.

tonify verb
to take tonics or nourishing food to strengthen one's health or body according to traditional Chinese medicine

他买了一些名贵的人参补身体。

tā mǎi le yī​xiē míng​guì de rén shēn bǔ shēn​tǐ.

He bought some precious ginseng to nourish his body.

supplement verb
to fill a vacancy or provide additional material to complete something

既然有人辞职，公司得赶紧找人补上这个缺口。

jì​rán yǒu rén cí​zhí, gōng​sī děi gǎn​jǐn zhǎo rén bǔ​shàng zhè​gè quē​kǒu.

Since someone has resigned, the company needs to find someone quickly to fill the vacancy.

Frequency
Character
Written text
944th most common 178.5 per million
Movie subtitles
1,160th most common 76.9 per million appears in 36% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
14.6 per million appears in 6% of films
Written text
83.8 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Simplified
补
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+88DC

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