报
bào HSK2

report

报 報 bào
to report verb
to report; to inform; to announce; to notify
newspaper noun
newspaper; periodical; journal; bulletin

今天报上有一则重要新闻。

jīn​tiān bào shang yǒu yī​zé zhòng​yào xīn​wén.

There's an important news item / item of news in today's paper.

to repay nounverb
to repay; to recompense; to requite (a favor, kindness, etc.)
news noun
(bound form) news; information; report; bulletin
[registration] verb
(bound form) to sign up for; to register

我也报过一些写作课程。

wǒ yě bào guo yī​xiē xiě​zuò kè​chéng.

I have also taken some writing classes.

telegram nounverb
(bound form) telegram; cable
to retaliate verbnoun
to retaliate; to take revenge; to avenge
retribution noun
retribution; karma; the results or consequences of one's previous actions
to sentence
(archaic) to sentence a criminal to death; to execute; to report a verdict to a superior
incest
(archaic) to have illicit sexual relations with an older relative or a woman of a previous generation (traditionally applied to a man and his father's concubines or elder relatives)

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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 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Traditional
報
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+62A5

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