报 bào
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
报道
bàodào
to report; news report
Characters in this word
道 dào
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 辶 — to walk
- Made of
- 辶 to walk 首 chief, head, leader
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 新闻报道很快。 Xīn wén bào dào hěn kuài. The news reports it quickly.
- 他报道比赛。 Tā bào dào bǐ sài. He reports on the game.
- 这报道很短。 Zhè bào dào hěn duǎn. This report is very short.