bào

report

Original meaning: 

punish

Simplified form of . Depicts a person being subdued (𠬝) by shackles (). Based on the original meaning "punish". The meaning later shifted to "revenge", "recompense", "report", and "announce".

Components
扌 simplified component

  Simplified component

shoushǒu

  

hand

Shorthand for the component in the traditional character .

𠬝 iconic component

𠬝  Iconic component

  

subdue

Evolution

报 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
报 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
报 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
报 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
报 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

() 

bào

report, tell, announce; to announce; to inform; report; newspaper; recompense; revenge; CL:[fèn],|[zhāng]

Most common words with 报
Freq.
Word
Meaning

报告

to inform

report

报道

report

报纸

newspaper

报警

to sound an alarm

Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 79.5291% of movies

332nd most common character in movies

234th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Traditional

Unicode

U+62A5


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