报 bào
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
报案
bào'àn
to report a case to the police
Characters in this word
案 àn
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 木 — tree
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
Example phrases
- 发现资料被盗后，公司立即向警方报案，并保留了服务器日志。 Fāxiàn zīliào bèi dào hòu, gōngsī lìjí xiàng jǐngfāng bào àn, bìng bǎoliú le fúwùqì rìzhì. After discovering that the data had been stolen, the company immediately reported the case to the police and kept the server logs.
- 我的手机在地铁上被偷了，我去派出所报案。 Wǒ de shǒujī zài dìtiě shang bèi tōu le, wǒ qù pàichūsuǒ bào'àn. My phone was stolen on the subway, so I went to the police station to report it.
- 丢了钱包以后，他第一时间打电话报案。 Diū le qiánbāo yǐhòu, tā dì yī shíjiān dǎ diànhuà bào'àn. After losing his wallet, he phoned the police right away.
Related words
- 报名 bàomíng to sign up
- 报纸 bàozhǐ newspaper
- 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