宝 寶
Stroke order
Show the animation 
Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 寶, the traditional character: 宝 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
-
Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 曹魏 - See all 35 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
-
为了不吵醒宝宝，我静静地关上了门。
I shut the door quietly so as not to wake the baby.
-
他们把她的宝宝叫做珍妮。
They named her baby Jane.
-
他是家里的宝贝。
He is the baby of the family.
-
养大一个宝宝是一项艰难的工作。
Bringing up a baby is hard work.
-
她是老师的宝贝。
She is a teacher's pet.
-
宝宝对我笑了。
The baby smiled at me.
-
宝宝开始哭了。
The baby started to cry.
-
宝宝正在睡觉。
The baby is sleeping.