Characters › 报
7 strokes · radical 扌 (hand) · traditional 報
12 strokes · simplified 报
A way to remember it
A hand and a kneeling figure being seized. It meant to sentence, then to announce, and now a newspaper: 报纸.
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Shown in simplified. Converting whole words needs one-to-many knowledge this site does not have — 发 is 發 in 出发 but 髮 in 头发 — and a confidently wrong word would be worse than an honest simplified one.
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to report; to inform; to announce; to respond; to reply
bào — to report; to inform; to announce; to respond; to reply
Radical 扌 (hand) · 7 strokes · traditional 報
12 strokes · simplified 报
A way to remember itA hand and a kneeling figure being seized. It meant to sentence, then to announce, and now a newspaper: 报纸.