an earthwork / castle / position of defense / stronghold / used in place names, often as phonetic bao for "burg" or "bad"

= + : Beelzebub (b) created a new olace for his valuables. Inside of the aorta (ao3) he built a sand castle (堡). In the center of the castle (堡) there is a heap of clay (土) on which a safe (保) is resting.
variant of 鋪|铺[pu4] / used in place names

堡 character breakdown

Bulgaria / Bulgarian / abbr. for 保加利亞|保加利亚[Bao3 jia1 li4 ya4]
Tu (ethnic group) / surname Tu
earth / dust / clay / local / indigenous / crude opium / unsophisticated / one of the eight categories of ancient musical instruments 八音[ba1 yin1]

= + : Tommy Turtle (tu) wants to fix a cross (十) on a flute (一) in the space station's living room (Ø3). He uses dust and clay (土) to hold them together.
to defend; to protect; to keep / to guarantee; to ensure / civil administration unit in the baojia 保甲[bao3 jia3] system (old)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a safe.

In the aorta (ao3), the fool (呆) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) unite their forces to protect (保) the world and try to lock Beelzebub (b) in a safe (保).

Characters with 堡 as component

堡 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 堡

castle / rook (chess piece)
bunker (underground fortification)
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
(until WWII) Königsberg, capital of East Prussia on the Baltic / (since WWII) Kaliningrad, Russian Republic
fort / fortress / CL:座[zuo4]
barrier reef
Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia
David Attenborough (1926-), British naturalist and broadcaster, author of Life on Earth 地球上的生物[di4 qiu2 shang4 de5 sheng1 wu4]
Gothenburg (city in Sweden)

Sentences with 堡

堡 currently does not appear in any sentence.