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播

bō

sow, scatter, broadcast

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 番 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

番 sound component

番  Sound component

fān, pān

  

to take turns

Evolution

播 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
播 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
播 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
播 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

播  

bō

sow, spread; broadcast; cast away, reject; to sow; to scatter; to spread; to broadcast; Taiwan pr. [bò]

Most common words with 播
Freq.
Word
Meaning

直播

live broadcast (not recorded)

广播

broadcast

播

to sow

传播

to disseminate

播放

to broadcast

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤar-s

paH

bò

to sow


Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 30.2259% of movies

1010th most common character in movies

1275th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Unicode

U+64AD

Shuowen

“播，穜也。一曰布也。从手，番聲。，古文播。”


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