报 bào
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
报警
bàojǐng
to call the police
Characters in this word
警 jǐng
- Strokes
- 19
- Radical
- 言 — words, speech
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 请快报警！ Qǐng kuài bàojǐng! Please call the police quickly!
- 我要报警。 Wǒ yào bàojǐng. I am going to call the police.
- 他去报警了。 Tā qù bàojǐng le. He goes to call the police.