布
bù HSK3

cotton cloth

布 bù frequency
cloth noun
textile or fabric made of woven fibers

他买了几米布来做窗帘。

tā mǎi le jǐ mǐ bù lái zuò chuāng​lián.

He bought a few meters of cloth to make curtains.

announce verb
to declare, make known, or publicize

为了自证清白，他决定将真相布之于众。

wèi​le zì zhèng qīng​bái, tā jué​dìng jiāng zhēn​xiàng bù zhī yú zhòng.

To prove his innocence, he decided to make the truth public.

spread verb
to spread out, scatter, or arrange

警方已经在逃犯可能出没的所有路口布下了眼线。

jǐng​fāng yǐ​jīng zài táo​fàn kě​néng chū​mò de suǒ​yǒu lù​kǒu bù xià le yǎn​xiàn.

The police have planted informants at all intersections where the fugitive might appear.

布 (佈) bù
announce verb
to make a formal public statement or declaration

校方正在公告栏上布告放假通知。

xiào​fāng zhèng zài gōng​gào​lán shàng bù gào fàng​jià tōng​zhī.

The school is posting a holiday notice on the bulletin board.

spread verb
to scatter, disseminate, or distribute over an area

我们要把这些致富的经验布散给每一位农民。

wǒ​men yào bǎ zhè​xiē zhì​fù de jīng​yàn bù sàn​gěi měi yī wèi nóng​mín.

We should disseminate these success stories of building wealth to every farmer.

Frequency
Character
Written text
380th most common 587.3 per million
Movie subtitles
383rd most common 389.7 per million appears in 64% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
46.1 per million appears in 12% of films
Written text
80.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
5
Unicode
U+5E03

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