报
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to report; to inform; to announce; to respond; to reply; to sign up for; to register for (abbr. for 報名|报名[bao4 ming2]); to reward; to recompense; to take revenge; to retaliate; newspaper; periodical; journal; bulletin; telegram
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 2
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 手 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 報
- Common rank
- #162
- Unicode
- U+62A5
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Formation & memory
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How 报 is formed
Ideographic compound (会意字)
A hand 扌 cuffing 又 a criminal 卩, representing sentencing
How to remember it
newspaper · Heisig RSH #1104
fingers + stamp + crotch
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 报
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 中国日报 | China Daily (an English language newspaper) | |
| 中国时报 | China Times (newspaper published in Taiwan) | |
| 大公报 | Dagong Bao, popular newspaper name; Ta Kung Pao, newspaper founded 1902 in Beijing, now pu… | |
| 发报人 | sender (of a message) | |
| 自报家门 | to introduce oneself; originally a theatrical device in which a character explains his own… | |
| 电报机 | telegraph | |
| 工人日报 | Workers' Daily, Chinese newspaper founded in 1949 | |
| 报子 | bearer of good news (esp. announcing success in imperial examinations) | |
| 报人 | journalist (esp. newspaper journalist) | |
| 报国 | to dedicate oneself to the service of one's country | |
| 报头 | masthead (of a newspaper etc); nameplate | |
| 学报 | a scholarly journal; Journal, Bulletin etc | |
| 人民日报 | People's Daily (PRC newspaper) | |
| 日人民报 | (vulgar) derogatory name (in which 日[ri4] means 肏[cao4]) for the "People's Daily" 人民日報|人民日… | |
| 小报 | tabloid newspaper | |
| 海报 | poster; playbill; notice | |
| 上报 | to report to one's superiors; to appear in the news; to reply to a letter | |
| 报上 | in the newspaper | |
| 大字报 | big-character poster | |
| 电报 | telegram; cable; telegraph; CL:封[feng1],份[fen4] |