Surname · Chinese
寶
“price”
寶 is a surname from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. It is used in Chinese.
ChineseWritten in Chinese characters script.
Meaning & origin
What it means
寶 goes back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pəw, meaning “price.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
寶’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
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Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named 寶
- Vang PaoLaotian-American soldier and former drug smuggler1929–2011
- Pauline Chan Bo-LinHong Kong actress (1973-2002)
- Zhang BaoYellow Turban leader200–184
- Li BaolianChinese javelin throwerborn 1963
Characters named 寶: Jia Baoyu (principal character in the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber).
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