| 波什格伦 | [ bō shén gé lún ] Porsgrunn (city in Telemark, Norway) |
| 波来古 | [ bō laí gǔ ] Pleiku, Vietnam |
| 波函数 | [ bō hán shù ] wave function (in quantum mechanics) |
| 波利尼西亚 | [ bō lì ní xī yà ] Polynesia |
| 波动 | [ bō dòng ] to undulate, to fluctuate, wave motion, rise and fall |
| 波动力学 | [ bō dòng lì xué ] wave mechanics (physics) |
| 波动性 | [ bō dòng xìng ] fluctuation |
| 波士尼亚 | [ bō shì ní yà ] Bosnia (Tw) |
| 波士尼亚与赫塞哥维纳 | [ bō shì ní yà yǔ hè sè gē weí nà ] Bosnia and Herzegovina (Tw) |
| 波士顿 | [ bō shì dùn ] Boston, capital of Massachusetts |
| 波士顿大学 | [ bō shì dùn dà xué ] Boston University |
| 波士顿红袜 | [ bō shì dùn hóng wà ] Boston Red Sox (baseball) team |
| 波多马克河 | [ bō duō mǎ kè hé ] see 波托馬克河|波托马克河[Bo1 tuo1 ma3 ke4 He2] |
| 波密县 | [ bō mì xiàn ] Bomi county, Tibetan: Spo mes rdzong, in Nyingchi prefecture 林芝地區|林芝地区[Lin2 zhi1 di4 qu1], Tibet |
| 波导 | [ bō daǒ ] waveguide (electronics) |
| 波希米亚 | [ bō xī mǐ yà ] Bohemia, historical country of central Europe |
| 波带片 | [ bō daì piān ] zone plate |
| 波恩大学 | [ bō ēn dà xué ] University of Bonn |
| 波托马克河 | [ bō tuō mǎ kè hé ] Potomac River |
| 波拉波拉岛 | [ bō lā bō lā daǒ ] Bora Bora, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia |
| 波数 | [ bō shù ] wave number (reciprocal of frequency) |
| 波斑鸨 | [ bō bān baǒ ] (bird species of China) MacQueen's bustard (Chlamydotis macqueenii) |
| 波斯尼亚 | [ bō sī ní yà ] Bosnia |
| 波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那 | [ bō sī ní yà hé heī saì gē weí nà ] Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那共和国 | [ bō sī ní yà hé heī saì gē weí nà gòng hé guó ] Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), predecessor of Bosnia and Herzegovina 波斯尼亞和黑塞哥維那|波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那[Bo1 si1 ni2 ya4 he2 Hei1 sai4 ge1 wei2 na4] |
| 波斯尼亚语 | [ bō sī ní yà yǔ ] Bosnian (language) |
| 波斯普鲁斯 | [ bō sī pǔ lǔ sī ] Bosphorus |
| 波斯普鲁斯海峡 | [ bō sī pǔ lǔ sī haǐ xiá ] the Bosphorus (strait) |
| 波斯湾 | [ bō sī wān ] Persian Gulf |
| 波斯语 | [ bō sī yǔ ] Persian (language), Farsi |
| 波斯猫 | [ bō sī maō ] Persian (cat) |
| 波普艺术 | [ bō pǔ yì shù ] pop art (loanword) |
| 波比运动 | [ bō bǐ yùn dòng ] burpee (loanword) |
| 波波头 | [ bō bō toú ] bob (hairstyle) |
| 波浪号 | [ bō làng haò ] tilde ( ~ ) |
| 波涛 | [ bō taō ] great waves, billows |
| 波涛汹涌 | [ bō taō xiōng yǒng ] waves surging forth, roaring sea |
| 波涛磷磷 | [ bō taō lín lín ] variant of 波濤粼粼|波涛粼粼[bo1 tao1 lin2 lin2] |
| 波涛粼粼 | [ bō taō lín lín ] crystalline waves (idiom) |
| 波澜 | [ bō lán ] billows, great waves (fig. of a story with great momentum) |
| 波澜壮阔 | [ bō lán zhuàng kuò ] surging forward with great momentum, unfolding on a magnificent scale |
| 波澜老成 | [ bō lán laǒ chéng ] splendid and powerful (of story), majestic, awesome |
| 波澜起伏 | [ bō lán qǐ fú ] one climax follows another (of thrilling story) |
| 波尔卡 | [ bō ěr kǎ ] polka (dance) (loanword) |
| 波尔多 | [ bō ěr duō ] Bordeaux |
| 波尔多液 | [ bō ěr duō yè ] Bordeaux mixture |
| 波尔布特 | [ bō ěr bù tè ] Pol Pot (1925-1998), Cambodian communist leader |
| 波特兰市 | [ bō tè lán shì ] Portland (city) |
| 波状 | [ bō zhuàng ] wave-shaped |
| 波状热 | [ bō zhuàng rè ] undulant fever, brucellosis |
| 波状云 | [ bō zhuàng yún ] undulatus |
| 波纹 | [ bō wén ] ripple, corrugation |
| 波罗 | [ bō luó ] Polo (car made by Volkswagen), surname Polo |
| 波罗的 | [ bō luó dì ] Baltic |
| 波罗的海 | [ bō luó dì haǐ ] Baltic Sea |
| 波罗蜜 | [ bō luó mì ] jackfruit, breadfruit, Artocarpus heterophyllus |
| 波美拉尼亚 | [ bō meǐ lā ní yà ] Pomerania, a historical region on the south shore of the Baltic Sea |
| 波美比重计 | [ bō meǐ bǐ zhòng jì ] Baume hydrometer |
| 波义耳 | [ bō yì ěr ] Boyle (name), Robert Boyle (1627-91), British and Irish scientist and pioneer chemist |
| 波茨坦会议 | [ bō cí tǎn huì yì ] Potsdam conference, July-August 1945, between Truman, Stalin and British prime ministers Churchill and Attlee |
| 波兹南 | [ bō zī nán ] Poznan (city in Poland) |
| 波兹坦 | [ bō zī tǎn ] Potsdam, Germany |
| 波兹曼 | [ bō zī màn ] Ludwig Boltzmann (1844-1906), Austrian physicist and philosopher |
| 波莱罗 | [ bō laí luó ] bolero (dance) (loanword) |
| 波荡 | [ bō dàng ] heave, surge |
| 波兰 | [ bō lán ] Poland |
| 波兰斯基 | [ bō lán sī jī ] Polanski (name) |
| 波兰语 | [ bō lán yǔ ] Polish (language) |
| 波西米亚 | [ bō xī mǐ yà ] Bohemia, historical country of central Europe |
| 波西米亚 | [ bō xī mǐ yà ] bohemian (i.e. artistic and unconventional) |
| 波语 | [ bō yǔ ] Polish language |
| 波谱 | [ bō pǔ ] spectrum |
| 波长 | [ bō cháng ] wavelength |
| 波阳 | [ bō yáng ] Boyang county, former name of Poyang county 鄱陽縣|鄱阳县[Po2 yang2 xian4] in Shangrao 上饒|上饶[Shang4 rao2], Jiangxi |
| 波阳县 | [ bō yáng xiàn ] Boyang county, former name of Poyang county 鄱陽縣|鄱阳县[Po2 yang2 xian4] in Shangrao 上饒|上饶[Shang4 rao2], Jiangxi |
| 波鸿 | [ bō hóng ] Bochum (city in Germany) |
| 波丽士 | [ bō lì shì ] police (loanword) (Tw) |
| ⇒ 光波长 | [ guāng bō cháng ] optical wavelength |
| ⇒ 刘晓波 | [ liú bō ] Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), Beijing writer and human rights activist, organizer of petition Charter 2008 零八憲章|零八宪章[Ling2 ba1 Xian4 zhang1], Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2010 |
| ⇒ 力学波 | [ lì xué bō ] mechanical wave |
| ⇒ 勒斯波斯岛 | [ lè sī bō sī daǒ ] Lesbos (Greek island in Aegean) |
| ⇒ 南波万 | [ nán bō wàn ] (Internet slang) number one (loanword) |
| ⇒ 印第安纳波利斯 | [ yìn dì ān nà bō lì sī ] Indianapolis, Indiana |
| ⇒ 可可波罗 | [ kě kě bō luó ] cocobolo (loanword) |
| ⇒ 噶拉b7多杰b7仁波切 | [ gá lā duō jié rén bō qiè ] Garab Dorje Rinpoche, succession of Buthanese religious leaders |
| ⇒ 图波列夫 | [ tú bō liè fū ] Tupolev, Russian plane maker |
| ⇒ 基谐波 | [ jī xié bō ] fundamental frequency, base harmonic |
| ⇒ 塞瓦斯托波尔 | [ saī wǎ sī tuō bō ěr ] Sevastopol |
| ⇒ 外交风波 | [ waì fēng bō ] diplomatic crisis |
| ⇒ 奥波莱 | [ aò bō laí ] Opole, city in Poland |
| ⇒ 安纳波利斯 | [ ān nà bō lì sī ] Annapolis (place name) |
| ⇒ 宦海风波 | [ huàn haǐ fēng bō ] lit. raging sea of bureaucracy, officials causing a big fuss |
| ⇒ 宁波 | [ níng bō ] Ningbo subprovincial city in Zhejiang |
| ⇒ 宁波地区 | [ níng bō dì qū ] Ningbo prefecture, Zhejiang |
| ⇒ 宁波市 | [ níng bō shì ] Ningbo subprovincial city in Zhejiang |
| ⇒ 冈仁波齐 | [ gāng rén bō qí ] Mt Gang Rinpoche in Tibet, also called Mount Kailash |
| ⇒ 冈仁波齐峰 | [ gāng rén bō qí fēng ] Mount Gang Rinpoche or Mount Kailash (6,638 m) in Tibet |
| ⇒ 岗仁波齐 | [ gǎng rén bō qí ] Mt Gang Rinpoche in Tibet, also written 岡仁波齊|冈仁波齐 |
| ⇒ 巴拉马利波 | [ bā lā mǎ lì bō ] Paramaribo, capital of Suriname (Tw) |
| ⇒ 平地起风波 | [ píng dì qǐ fēng bō ] trouble appearing from nowhere, unforeseen situation |
| ⇒ 微波天线 | [ weī bō tiān xiàn ] microwave antenna |
| ⇒ 微波炉 | [ weī bō lú ] microwave oven, CL:臺|台[tai2] |
| ⇒ 拿破仑b7波拿巴 | [ ná pò lún bō ná bā ] Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815 |
| ⇒ 推波助澜 | [ tuī bō zhù lán ] to push the wave and add to the billows (idiom); to add momentum, to encourage sth to get bigger, to add fuel to the fire |
| ⇒ 曼波鱼 | [ màn bō yú ] ocean sunfish (Mola mola) |
| ⇒ 格尔夫波特 | [ gé ěr fū bō tè ] Gulf Port (Florida or Mississippi) |
| ⇒ 横波 | [ héng bō ] transverse wave |
| ⇒ 检波 | [ jiǎn bō ] to detect (e.g. radio waves) |
| ⇒ 次声波 | [ cì shēng bō ] infrasonic wave |
| ⇒ 水波炉 | [ shuǐ bō lú ] superheated steam oven |
| ⇒ 法属波利尼西亚 | [ fǎ shǔ bō lì ní xī yà ] French Polynesia |
| ⇒ 波拉波拉岛 | [ bō lā bō lā daǒ ] Bora Bora, island of the Society Islands group in French Polynesia |
| ⇒ 波波头 | [ bō bō toú ] bob (hairstyle) |
| ⇒ 滤波 | [ lǜ bō ] filtering radio waves (i.e. to pick out one frequency) |
| ⇒ 滤波器 | [ lǜ bō qì ] filter |
| ⇒ 无线电波 | [ wú xiàn diàn bō ] radio waves, wireless electric wave |
| ⇒ 烟波 | [ yān bō ] mist covered water |
| ⇒ 瑞波币 | [ ruì bō bì ] Ripple (digital currency) |
| ⇒ 短波长 | [ duǎn bō cháng ] short wavelength |
| ⇒ 简谐波 | [ jiǎn xié bō ] simple harmonic wave, sine wave |
| ⇒ 线性波 | [ xiàn xìng bō ] linear wave |
| ⇒ 纵波 | [ zòng bō ] longitudinal wave |
| ⇒ 总谐波失真 | [ zǒng xié bō shī zhēn ] (acoustics) total harmonic distortion (THD) |
| ⇒ 声波 | [ shēng bō ] sound wave |
| ⇒ 声波定位 | [ shēng bō dìng weì ] sonic location system (esp. underwater sonar), acoustic positioning |
| ⇒ 脑波 | [ naǒ bō ] brain wave, EEG |
| ⇒ 脑电波 | [ naǒ diàn bō ] see 腦波|脑波[nao3 bo1] |
| ⇒ 般若波罗密 | [ bō rě bō luó mì ] prajña paramita (Sanskrit: supreme wisdom - beginning of the Heart Sutra) |
| ⇒ 般若波罗密多心经 | [ bō rě bō luó mì duō xīn jīng ] the Heart Sutra |
| ⇒ 荔波县 | [ lì bō xiàn ] Libo county in Qiannan Buyei and Miao autonomous prefecture 黔南州[Qian2 nan2 zhou1], Guizhou |
| ⇒ 苏珊b7波伊尔 | [ sū shān bō yī ěr ] Susan Boyle (1961-), competitor in UK reality TV competition |
| ⇒ 冲击波 | [ chōng jī bō ] shock wave, blast wave |
| ⇒ 调制波 | [ zhì bō ] modulated wave (elec.) |
| ⇒ 谐波 | [ xié bō ] harmonic (wave with frequency an integer multiple of the fundamental) |
| ⇒ 超声波 | [ chaō shēng bō ] ultrasound (scan) |
| ⇒ 超声波检查 | [ chaō shēng bō jiǎn chá ] echography, ultrasound scan |
| ⇒ 轩然大波 | [ xuān rán dà bō ] huge waves, (fig.) ruckus, controversy, sensation |
| ⇒ 载波 | [ zaì bō ] carrier wave |
| ⇒ 辐射波 | [ fú shè bō ] radiation (wave), radiated wave |
| ⇒ 金融风波 | [ jīn róng fēng bō ] financial crisis, banking crisis |
| ⇒ 长波 | [ cháng bō ] longwave (radio) |
| ⇒ 阿波罗 | [ ā bō luó ] Apollo (loanword) |
| ⇒ 阿波罗计划 | [ ā bō luó jì huà ] the Apollo project (1961-1975), the NASA moon landing project |
| ⇒ 随波 | [ suí bō ] to drift with the waves |
| ⇒ 随波逐流 | [ suí bō zhú liú ] to drift with the waves and go with the flow (idiom); to follow the crowd blindly |
| ⇒ 随波逊流 | [ suí bō xùn liú ] to drift with the waves and yield to the flow (idiom); to follow the crowd blindly |
| ⇒ 雷波县 | [ leí bō xiàn ] Leibo county in Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture 涼山彞族自治州|凉山彝族自治州[Liang2 shan1 Yi2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], south Sichuan |
| ⇒ 电波 | [ diàn bō ] electric wave, alternating current |
| ⇒ 电磁波 | [ diàn cí bō ] electromagnetic wave |
| ⇒ 震波图 | [ zhèn bō tú ] seismogram |
| ⇒ 风波 | [ fēng bō ] disturbance, crisis, disputes, restlessness, CL:場|场[chang2] |
| ⇒ 风波不断 | [ fēng bō bù duàn ] constantly in turmoil, crisis after crisis |
| ⇒ 余波 | [ yú bō ] aftermath, repercussions, fallout |
| ⇒ 马可波罗 | [ mǎ kě bō luó ] Marco Polo (1254-c. 1324), Venetian trader and explorer who traveled the Silk road to China, author of Il Milione (Travels of Marco Polo) |
| ⇒ 马拉开波 | [ mǎ lā kaī bō ] Maracaibo, Venezuela |
| ⇒ 驻波 | [ zhù bō ] standing wave |
| ⇒ 鲸波 | [ jīng bō ] huge wave or breaker |
