报 bào
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
报到
bàodào
to check in; to register
Characters in this word
到 dào
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 刂 — knife
- Made of
- 至 reach, arrive 刂 knife
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 新生来报到。 Xīn shēng lái bào dào. New students come to register.
- 明天去报到。 Míng tiān qù bào dào. I go to check in tomorrow.
- 我已经报到。 Wǒ yǐ jīng bào dào. I have already checked in.