| 補 | [ bǔ ] to repair, to patch, to mend, to make up for, to fill (a vacancy), to supplement |
| 補丁 | [ bǔ ding ] patch (for mending clothes, tires etc), (software) patch |
| 補休 | [ bǔ xiū ] to take deferred time off (to make up for working during the weekend or holidays), compensatory leave |
| 補偏救弊 | [ bǔ piān jiù bì ] to remedy defects and correct errors (idiom); to rectify past mistakes |
| 補償 | [ bǔ cháng ] to compensate, to make up |
| 補償費 | [ bǔ cháng feì ] compensation |
| 補充 | [ bǔ chōng ] to replenish, to supplement, to complement, additional, supplementary, CL:個|个[ge4] |
| 補充品 | [ bǔ chōng pǐn ] complementary item |
| 補充醫療 | [ bǔ chōng yī ] complementary medicine |
| 補充量 | [ bǔ chōng liàng ] complement, complementary quantity |
| 補刀 | [ bǔ daō ] (gaming) to finish off a wounded combatant, (fig.) to attack sb who is already under fire, to pile on, (sphragistics) to retouch a seal after taking a first impression |
| 補助 | [ bǔ zhù ] to subsidize, subsidy, allowance |
| 補助組織 | [ bǔ zhù zǔ zhī ] auxiliary organizations |
| 補卡 | [ bǔ kǎ ] to replace a lost or damaged SIM card, retaining one's original telephone number, SIM replacement |
| 補品 | [ bǔ pǐn ] tonic |
| 補回 | [ bǔ huí ] to make up for, to compensate |
| 補報 | [ bǔ baò ] to make a report after the event, to make a supplementary report, to repay a kindness |
| 補強 | [ bǔ qiáng ] (engineering) to reinforce (a structure), to strengthen, (fig.) to rectify shortcomings |
| 補救 | [ bǔ jiù ] to remedy |
| 補數 | [ bǔ shù ] complementary number |
| 補時 | [ bǔ shí ] (sports) to extend the duration of a game (due to stoppages), (abbr. for 傷停補時|伤停补时[shang1 ting2 bu3 shi2]) injury time |
| 補法 | [ bǔ fǎ ] treatment involving the use of tonics to restore the patient's health, reinforcing method (in acupuncture) |
| 補液 | [ bǔ yè ] fluid infusion |
| 補滿 | [ bǔ mǎn ] to make up for what is lacking, to fill (a vacancy), to replenish |
| 補瀉 | [ bǔ xiè ] reinforcing and reducing methods (in acupuncture) |
| 補爐 | [ bǔ lú ] fettling |
| 補牙 | [ bǔ yá ] to fill a tooth (cavity), to have a tooth filled, a dental filling |
| 補登 | [ bǔ dēng ] record entry (e.g. into a bank passbook) |
| 補登機 | [ bǔ dēng jī ] passbook entry machine |
| 補發 | [ bǔ fā ] to supply again (sth lost), to reissue, to pay retroactively |
| 補白 | [ bǔ baí ] to fill a gap (e.g. a gap in knowledge or blank space in a print layout), to make some additional remarks, filler (in a newspaper or magazine) |
| 補益 | [ bǔ yì ] benefit, help |
| 補眠 | [ bǔ mián ] to catch up on sleep |
| 補碼 | [ bǔ mǎ ] complementary code, binary code with 0 and 1 interchanged |
| 補票 | [ bǔ ] to buy or upgrade a ticket after boarding a train, boat etc, to buy a ticket for a show after having sat down in the theater |
| 補票處 | [ bǔ chù ] additional ticket desk, stand-by counter |
| 補稅 | [ bǔ shuì ] to pay a tax one has evaded, to pay an overdue tax |
| 補種 | [ bǔ zhòng ] to reseed, to resow, to replant |
| 補給 | [ bǔ jǐ ] supply, replenishment, to replenish |
| 補給品 | [ bǔ jǐ pǐn ] supplies, stores |
| 補給站 | [ bǔ jǐ zhàn ] depot, supply station, supply point, staging post |
| 補給船 | [ bǔ jǐ chuán ] supply ship |
| 補給艦 | [ bǔ jǐ jiàn ] supply ship |
| 補綴 | [ bǔ zhuì ] to mend (clothes), to patch |
| 補缺 | [ bǔ quē ] to fill a vacancy, to make up for a shortage, to supply a deficiency |
| 補缺拾遺 | [ bǔ quē shí yí ] see 拾遺補缺|拾遗补缺[shi2 yi2 bu3 que1] |
| 補習 | [ bǔ xí ] to take extra lessons in a cram school or with a private tutor |
| 補習班 | [ bǔ xí bān ] cram class, cram school, evening classes |
| 補考 | [ bǔ kaǒ ] to sit for a makeup exam, to resit an exam, makeup exam, resit |
| 補胎 | [ bǔ taī ] to repair a tire |
| 補胎片 | [ bǔ taī piàn ] tire patch (for puncture repair) |
| 補色 | [ bǔ sè ] complementary color |
| 補花 | [ bǔ huā ] applique |
| 補苗 | [ bǔ ] to fill gaps with seedlings |
| 補藥 | [ bǔ yaò ] tonic |
| 補血 | [ bǔ xuè ] to enrich the blood |
| 補裰 | [ bǔ duō ] to mend clothes |
| 補角 | [ bǔ ] supplementary angle |
| 補語 | [ bǔ yǔ ] complement (grammar) |
| 補課 | [ bǔ kè ] to make up missed lesson, to reschedule a class |
| 補貨 | [ bǔ huò ] to restock (an item), to replenish inventory |
| 補貼 | [ bǔ tiē ] to subsidize, subsidy, allowance, to supplement (one's salary etc), benefit |
| 補足 | [ bǔ zú ] to bring up to full strength, to make up a deficiency, to fill (a vacancy, gap etc) |
| 補足物 | [ bǔ zú wù ] complement, complementary material |
| 補足音程 | [ bǔ zú yīn chéng ] complementary interval, addition musical interval adding to an octave |
| 補足額 | [ bǔ zú é ] complement, complementary sum |
| 補辦 | [ bǔ bàn ] to do sth after the time it should have been done, to do sth to make up for not having done it before, to reapply for (a lost document, card etc) |
| 補過 | [ bǔ guò ] to make up for an earlier mistake, to make amends |
| 補選 | [ bǔ xuǎn ] by-election |
| 補遺 | [ bǔ yí ] addendum |
| 補釘 | [ bǔ ding ] variant of 補丁|补丁[bu3 ding5] |
| 補闕 | [ bǔ quē ] old variant of 補缺|补缺[bu3 que1] |
| 補集 | [ bǔ jí ] complement of a set |
| 補電 | [ bǔ diàn ] to charge (a battery) |
| 補靪 | [ bǔ ding ] variant of 補丁|补丁[bu3 ding5] |
| 補養 | [ bǔ yǎng ] to take a tonic or nourishing food to build up one's health |
| 補體 | [ bǔ tǐ ] complement (in blood serum) |
| ⇒ 不無小補 | [ bù wú bǔ ] not be without some advantage, be of some help |
| ⇒ 互補 | [ hù bǔ ] complementary, to complement each other |
| ⇒ 亡羊補牢 | [ wáng yáng bǔ laó ] lit. to mend the pen after sheep are lost (idiom), fig. to act belatedly, better late than never, to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted |
| ⇒ 修補 | [ xiū bǔ ] to mend |
| ⇒ 修補匠 | [ xiū bǔ jiàng ] tinker |
| ⇒ 候補 | [ hoù bǔ ] to wait to fill a vacancy, reserve (candidate), alternate, substitute |
| ⇒ 候補名單 | [ hoù bǔ míng dān ] waiting list |
| ⇒ 傷停補時 | [ shāng tíng bǔ shí ] (sports) injury time |
| ⇒ 取長補短 | [ qǔ cháng bǔ duǎn ] lit. use others' strengths to make up for one's weak points (idiom from Mencius), to use this in place of that, what you lose on the swings, you win on the roundabouts |
| ⇒ 填補 | [ tián bǔ ] to fill a gap, to fill in a blank (on a form), to overcome a deficiency |
| ⇒ 墊補 | [ diàn bu ] (coll.) to cover a shortfall by using funds intended for another purpose or by borrowing some money, (coll.) to snack |
| ⇒ 增補 | [ zēng bǔ ] to augment, to supplement, to add |
| ⇒ 多退少補 | [ duō tuì shaǒ bǔ ] (after a sum has been paid in advance) to refund (in case of overpayment) or be reimbursed (in case of underpayment) |
| ⇒ 大補帖 | [ dà bǔ tiě ] tonic, healthy concoction, (fig.) just what the doctor ordered, (Tw) pirated software |
| ⇒ 將功補過 | [ jiāng gōng bǔ guò ] to make up for one's faults by doing good deeds (idiom) |
| ⇒ 將勤補絀 | [ jiāng qín bǔ chù ] to compensate for lack of ability through hard work (idiom) |
| ⇒ 小洞不堵，大洞難補 | [ dòng bù dǔ dà dòng nán bǔ ] If you don't plug the small hole, the big hole will be hard to repair (idiom); A stitch in time saves nine. |
| ⇒ 小洞不補大洞吃苦 | [ dòng bù bǔ dà dòng chī kǔ ] A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine |
| ⇒ 彈藥補給站 | [ dàn yaò bǔ jǐ zhàn ] ammunition depot |
| ⇒ 彌補 | [ mí bǔ ] to complement, to make up for a deficiency |
| ⇒ 惡補 | [ è bǔ ] to overdose on supplementary medicine, to cram too hard |
| ⇒ 截長補短 | [ jié cháng bǔ duǎn ] take from the long to supplement the short (idiom), to offset each other's deficiencies, to complement each other |
| ⇒ 找補 | [ zhaǒ bu ] to compensate, to make up, to complement, to add |
| ⇒ 抵補 | [ dǐ bǔ ] to compensate for, to make good |
| ⇒ 拆東牆補西牆 | [ chaī dōng qiáng bǔ xī qiáng ] lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west wall (idiom); fig. temporary expedient, rob Peter to pay Paul |
| ⇒ 拆東補西 | [ chaī dōng bǔ xī ] lit. pull down the east wall to repair the west (idiom); fig. temporary expedient, Rob Peter to pay Paul |
| ⇒ 拋補 | [ paō bǔ ] cover (i.e. insurance against loss in financial deals) |
| ⇒ 拋補套利 | [ paō bǔ taò lì ] covered arbitrage |
| ⇒ 拾遺補缺 | [ shí yí bǔ quē ] to remedy omissions and correct errors (idiom) |
| ⇒ 挖肉補瘡 | [ wā roù bǔ chuāng ] to cut one's flesh to cover a sore (idiom); faced with a current crisis, to make it worse by a temporary expedient |
| ⇒ 插補 | [ chā bǔ ] interpolation (math.) |
| ⇒ 搭補 | [ dā bǔ ] to subsidize, to make up (deficit) |
| ⇒ 於事無補 | [ yú shì wú bǔ ] unhelpful, useless |
| ⇒ 替補 | [ tì bǔ ] to replace (a damaged component with a new one, an injured player with a substitute player, full-time workers with casual workers etc), a substitute, a replacement |
| ⇒ 替補隊員 | [ tì bǔ duì yuán ] substitute player, reserve player |
| ⇒ 添補 | [ tiān bu ] to fill (up), to replenish |
| ⇒ 清補涼 | [ qīng bǔ liáng ] ching bo leung, an icy, sweet dessert soup |
| ⇒ 滋補 | [ zī bǔ ] nourishing, nutritious |
| ⇒ 滋補品 | [ zī bǔ pǐn ] tonic, invigorant |
| ⇒ 無補 | [ wú bǔ ] of no avail, not helping in the least |
| ⇒ 熱補 | [ rè bǔ ] hot patching (of insulating material in a furnace), hot patching (runtime correction in computing) |
| ⇒ 縫補 | [ féng bǔ ] to darn (clothing), to sew and mend |
| ⇒ 織補 | [ zhī bǔ ] darning, to darn |
| ⇒ 腦補 | [ naǒ bǔ ] (Internet slang) to imagine, to visualize |
| ⇒ 船到江心，補漏遲 | [ chuán daò jiāng xīn bǔ loù chí ] It's too late to plug the leak once ship is in the middle of the river. (idiom) |
| ⇒ 藥補 | [ yaò bǔ ] medicinal dietary supplement that helps build up one's health |
| ⇒ 藥補不如食補 | [ yaò bǔ bù rú shí bǔ ] the benefits of medicine are not as great as those of good nutrition |
| ⇒ 藥補不如食補 | [ yaò bǔ bù rú shí bǔ ] the benefits of medicine are not as great as those of good nutrition |
| ⇒ 虛不受補 | [ xū bù shoù bǔ ] a person who is in poor health cannot handle sth so strong as a tonic |
| ⇒ 裨補 | [ bì bǔ ] to remedy, to make up for, benefit |
| ⇒ 西遊補 | [ xī yoú bǔ ] one of three Ming dynasty sequels to Journey to the West 西遊記|西游记 |
| ⇒ 追補 | [ zhuī bǔ ] a supplement, additional budget |
| ⇒ 進補 | [ jìn bǔ ] to take a tonic (for one's health) |
| ⇒ 遞補 | [ dì bǔ ] to substitute, to complement in the proper order, to fill vacancies progressively |
| ⇒ 配補 | [ peì bǔ ] to replace (sth missing), to restore |
| ⇒ 頂補 | [ dǐng bǔ ] to fill a vacancy, to substitute for |
| ⇒ 額外補貼 | [ é waì bǔ tiē ] to give an extra subsidy, or bonus etc, bonus, perquisite |
| ⇒ 食補 | [ shí bǔ ] tonic food (food considered to be particularly healthful), to eat such foods |
| ⇒ 鹼基互補配對 | [ jiǎn jī hù bǔ peì duì ] complementary base pairing e.g. adenine A 腺嘌呤 pairs with thymine T 胸腺嘧啶 in DNA |
| ⇒ 點補 | [ diǎn bǔ ] to have a snack, to have a bite |