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Mythic Mandarin

播 (bō): meaning and stroke order

播 (bō) means (bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas.

播

Simplified
播
Traditional
播 (same form)
Pinyin
bō

Stroke order of 播

播

  • bō (bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas, rumors etc); to broadcast (radio signals etc); Taiwan pr. [bo4]
  • 15 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 播

  1. bō
    • (bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas, rumors etc); to broadcast (radio signals etc)
    • Taiwan pr. [bo4]

Radical and structure

播
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 15 strokes · 扌 on the left, 番 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.

Words with 播

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).