bào
report
Original meaning:
punish
Depicts a person being subdued (𠬝) by shackles (㚔). Based on the original meaning "punish". The meaning later shifted to "revenge", "recompense", "report", and "announce".
Components
Evolution

Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pˤuk-s | pawH | bào | repay |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 79.5291% of movies
332nd most common character in movies
234th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+5831 |
Shuowen | “報,當罪人也。从,从。,服罪也。” |
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