報
bào HSK3

report

报 (報) bào
report verb
to report, inform, or announce

他向警察报了案。

tā xiàng jǐng​chá bào le àn.

He reported the case to the police.

newspaper noun
newspaper, periodical, journal, bulletin, or telegram

他坐在沙发上看报。

tā zuò zài shā​fā shàng kàn bào.

He is sitting on the sofa reading the newspaper.

requite verb
to reward, recompense, or take revenge

善有善报，恶有恶报。

shàn​yǒu​shàn​bào, è yǒu è​bào.

Good is rewarded with good, and evil with evil.

register verb
to sign up or register for something (abbreviation of 报名 bào​míng)

我报了一个英语口语班。

wǒ bào le yī gè Yīng​yǔ kǒu​yǔ​bān.

I signed up for an oral English class.

respond verb
to respond or reply

他对我报以热情的微笑。

tā duì wǒ bào yǐ rè​qíng de wēi​xiào.

He responded to me with a warm smile.

file/declare verb
to formally submit information or documentation to an authority, such as declaring income or goods for taxation purposes.

Frequency
Character
Written text
234th most common 942.7 per million
Movie subtitles
332nd most common 467.6 per million appears in 80% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
47.8 per million appears in 17% of films
Written text
398.2 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Simplified
报
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+5831

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)