Chinese Character 报 Meanings and components.

Form

Meaning

报 meaning[3] in English

To Announce.

To Inform.

Report.

Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi[2] character can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'hand' radical in … (扌) , and (𠬝)

Its radical[1] is: (shou3) which means: Hand, (Formal) To Hold, Person Engaged In Certain Types Of Work, Person Skilled In Certain Types Of Work, Personal(Ly), Convenient, Classifier For Skill, Cl:雙|双[Shuang1],隻|只[Zhi1], .shou3hand

In cangjie it is written with QSLE

How to write 报

To writebao4to announce you should write a combination of shou5'hand' radical … , 𠬝fu2 arranged in a shape:

+ 𠬝 =

报 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 报 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of , looks as follow:

Pinyin:bao4 Shape:
Meaning[3]: To Announce . To Inform . Report . Newspaper . Recompense . Revenge . Cl:份[Fen4],張|张[Zhang1]

Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc

𠬝
Pinyin:fu2 Shape:+

Pinyin:jie2
Meaning[3]: 'Seal' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 26)

Pinyin:you4
Meaning[3]: (Once) Again . Also . Both... And... . And Yet . (Used For Emphasis) Anyway

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: section shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: hànChinese Character

  • Wiktionary Page for 报in English or Chinese