报 bào
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
报纸
bàozhǐ
newspaper
Characters in this word
纸 zhǐ
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 纟 — silk
- Made of
- 纟 silk 氏 clan, family
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 爸爸看报纸。 Bàba kàn bàozhǐ. Dad reads the newspaper.
- 报纸在桌上。 Bàozhǐ zài zhuō shang. The newspaper is on the table.
- 我买了报纸。 Wǒ mǎi le bàozhǐ. I bought a newspaper.
Related words
- 报名 bàomíng to sign up
- 日报 rìbào daily newspaper
- 晚报 wǎnbào evening newspaper
- 报 bào newspaper
- 报到 bàodào to check in; to register
- 报道 bàodào to report; news report
- 报告 bàogào report; speech
- 预报 yùbào forecast
- 汇报 huìbào to report
- 报答 bàodá to repay someone's kindness
- 报警 bàojǐng to call the police
- 回报 huíbào to repay