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Kanji Detail for 補 - "supplement, repair, assist"
補
- Meaning
補 means "supplement, repair, assist."
Supplement - To fill what is lacking; to make up for deficiencies.
Repair - To mend; to fix; to assist.
Appoint - To confer an official position.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
supplement; supply; make good; offset; compensate; assistant; learner
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
mend, patch, fix, repair, restore
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
to repair; to patch; to mend; to make up for; to fill (a vacancy); to supplement
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
to fix, to mend, to patch, to restore
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
To mend clothing. Meaning to repair what is torn to make it whole again. Such as 補綴 (patching), 補衲 (mending). | Whenever there is a deficiency and it is completed, or a long-standing gap and it is filled, it is called 補. Such as 補遺 (supplementing omissions), 補缺 (filling vacancies). | To assist. Mencius says "In spring inspect the plowing and supplement what is lacking." | To benefit. Such as saying 不無小補 (not without some small benefit).
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Sentences including 補
The supplies will give out soon.
I gave up running for president.
The supplies will give out soon.
He wants to run for president.
He stood for an election.
He is going to run for the presidency.