曝 bào
- Strokes
- 19
- Radical
- 日 — sun
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
曝光
bàoguāng
to expose; exposure
Characters in this word
光 guāng
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 儿 — son, child
- Made of
- ⺌ small 兀 weak
- How it's built
- Ideograph — the meaning is built from its parts
Example phrases
- 这起丑闻被媒体曝光后，多名高管被迫辞职。 Zhè qǐ chǒuwén bèi méitǐ bàoguāng hòu, duō míng gāoguǎn bèi pò cízhí. After this scandal was exposed by the media, several senior executives were forced to resign.
- 照相时曝光时间太长，照片就会变得很亮。 Zhàoxiàng shí bàoguāng shíjiān tài cháng, zhàopiàn jiù huì biàn de hěn liàng. If the exposure time is too long when taking a photo, the picture will turn out very bright.
- 这家餐厅的卫生问题被网友曝光以后，生意差了很多。 Zhè jiā cāntīng de wèishēng wèntí bèi wǎngyǒu bàoguāng yǐhòu, shēngyi chà le hěn duō. After netizens exposed this restaurant's hygiene problems, its business dropped a lot.