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报纸 (bào zhǐ): meaning and stroke order

报纸 (bào zhǐ) means newspaper, newsprint, CL:份,期张.

报纸

Simplified
报纸
Traditional
報紙
Pinyin
bào zhǐ

Stroke order of 报纸

报

  • bào to report; to inform; to announce; to respond; to reply
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 報

Stroke by stroke

纸

  • zhǐ variant of 紙|纸[zhi3]
  • zhǐ paper (CL:張|张[zhang1],沓[da2]); classifier for documents, letters etc
  • 7 strokes
  • Traditional form: 帋

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 报纸

  1. bào zhǐ Traditional 報紙
    • newspaper
    • newsprint
    • CL:份[fen4],期[qi1],張|张[zhang1]

Radicals of the characters

报
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 7 strokes · 扌 on the left, 𠬝 on the right
纸
Radical 纟 (Kangxi radical 120) in its simplified form · 7 strokes · 纟 on the left, 氏 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

报纸 in our stories

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  • 实习记者柯雨桐接到了第一个任务：为报纸的“城市记忆”栏目，采访一位在街角修了五十年鞋的老人。

    shíxí jìzhě Kē Yǔtóng jiēdào le dì-yī gè rènwu wèi bàozhǐ de chéngshì jìyì lánmù cǎifǎng yí wèi zài jiējiǎo xiū le wǔshí nián xié de lǎorén

    Trainee reporter Ke Yutong got her first assignment: for the paper's "City Memories" column, interview an old man who had mended shoes on a street corner for fifty years.

    From the story Old Du on the corner HSK 6

  • 可是船运公司却在报纸上宣布：当晚风浪很大，石青山不顾危险，坚持出海，船沉完全是他的责任。

    kěshì chuányùn gōngsī què zài bàozhǐ shàng xuānbù dàngwǎn fēnglàng hěn dà Shí Qīngshān búgù wēixiǎn jiānchí chūhǎi chuán chén wánquán shì tā de zérèn

    But the shipping company announced in the papers that the sea had been very rough that night, that Shi Qingshan had insisted on sailing regardless of the danger, and that the sinking was entirely his fault.

    From the story The storm that never was HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 报纸

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).