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Mythic Mandarin

播放 (bō fàng): meaning and stroke order

播放 (bō fàng) means to broadcast; to transmit (by radio or TV).

播放

Simplified
播放
Traditional
播放 (same form)
Pinyin
bō fàng

Stroke order of 播放

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

放

  • fàng to put; to place
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 播放

  1. bō fàng
    • to broadcast; to transmit (by radio or TV)

Radicals of the characters

播
Radical 手 (Kangxi radical 64) · 15 strokes · 扌 on the left, 番 on the right
放
Radical 攴 (Kangxi radical 66) · 8 strokes · 方 on the left, 攵 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.

播放 in our stories

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  • 当天晚上，这段视频被人剪了出来，放到网上，一夜之间有了两百万次播放。

    dàngtiān wǎnshang zhè duàn shìpín bèi rén jiǎn le chūlai fàng dào wǎngshang yí yè zhījiān yǒu le liǎngbǎiwàn cì bōfàng

    That night someone clipped the video and posted it online; overnight it got two million views.

    From the story Pulling noodles is a workout too HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 播放

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).