| 薄 | bó | meager; slight; weak; ungenerous or unkind; frivolous; to despise; to belittle; to look down on; to approach or near; surname Bo |
| 薄 | báo | thin; cold in manner; indifferent; weak; light; infertile |
| 薄 | bò | see 薄荷 |
| 薄膜 | bó mó | membrane; film; CL:层 |
| 薄弱 | bó ruò | weak; frail |
| 薄片 | báo piàn | thin slice; thin section; flake; Taiwan pr. [bo2 pian4] |
| 厚薄 | hòu báo | thickness; also pr. [hou4 bo2] |
| 厚薄 | hòu bó | to favor one and discriminate against the other (abbr. for 厚此薄彼) |
| 薄板 | báo bǎn | metal sheet; lamina |
| 薄荷 | bò he | field mint; peppermint |
| 浅薄 | qiǎn bó | superficial |
| 微薄 | wēi bó | scanty; meager |
| 轻薄 | qīng bó | light; frivolous; a philanderer |
| 刻薄 | kè bó | unkind; harsh; cutting; mean; acrimony; to embezzle by making illegal deductions |
| 薄雾 | bó wù | mist; haze |
| 淡薄 | dàn bó | thin; light; flagging; faint |
| 薄利 | bó lì | small profits |
| 俭薄 | jiǎn bó | to lack the necessities of life |
| 厚此薄彼 | hòu cǐ bó bǐ | to favour one and discriminate against the other |
| 厚死薄生 | hòu sǐ bó shēng | lit. to praise the dead and revile the living; fig. to live in the past (idiom) |
| 厚养薄葬 | hòu yǎng bó zàng | generous care but a thrifty funeral; to look after one's parents generously, but not waste money on a lavish funeral |
| 厌薄 | yàn bó | to despise; to look down upon sth |
| 喷薄 | pēn bó | to gush; to squirt; to surge; to well out; to overflow |
| 喷薄欲出 | pēn bó yù chū | to emerge in blazing glory (idiom) |
| 妄自菲薄 | wàng zì fēi bó | to be unduly humble (idiom); to undervalue oneself; false modesty |
| 尖酸刻薄 | jiān suān kè bó | sharp and unkind (words) |
| 微薄的 | wēi bó de | meager |
| 德薄能鲜 | dé bó néng xiǎn | little virtue and meager abilities (idiom); I'm a humble person and not much use at anything (Song writer Ouyang Xiu 欧阳修) |
| 摊薄 | tān bó | dilution |
| 摊薄后每股盈利 | tān bó hòu měi gǔ yíng lì | diluted earnings per share |
| 浮薄 | fú báo | frivolous; philandering |
| 红颜薄命 | hóng yán bó mìng | beautiful women suffer unhappy fates (idiom) |
| 绵薄 | mián bó | my humble effort; my meager contribution (humble) |
| 胡椒薄荷 | hú jiāo bò he | peppermint |
| 脸薄 | liǎn báo | bashful; shy |
| 薄一波 | Bó Yī bō | Bo Yibo (1908-2007), ranking PRC politician, served on State Council from 1950s to 1980s as colleague of Deng Xiaoping |
| 薄利多销 | bó lì duō xiāo | small profit but rapid turnover |
| 薄厚 | bó hòu | meanness and generosity; intimacy and alienation |
| 薄命 | bó mìng | to be born under an unlucky star (usu. of women); to be born unlucky |
| 薄地 | bó dì | barren land; poor soil |
| 薄层 | báo céng | thin layer; thin slice; film; lamina; lamella |
| 薄幸 | bó xìng | fickle; inconstant person |
| 薄待 | bó dài | mean treatment; indifference; meager hospitality |
| 薄情 | bó qíng | inconstant in love; fickle |
| 薄技 | bó jì | meager skill; my poor talents (humble) |
| 薄明 | bó míng | dim light; early dawn |
| 薄暗 | bó àn | at dusk; evening |
| 薄暮 | bó mù | dusk; twilight |
| 薄晓 | bó xiǎo | at dawn |
| 薄油层 | bó yóu céng | oil sheet |
