播
bō HSK3

sow, scatter, broadcast

播 bō
broadcast verb
to broadcast or transmit radio or television signals

电视上正在播一部非常精彩的动作电影。

diàn​shì shàng zhèng​zài bō yī bù fēi​cháng jīng​cǎi de dòng​zuò diàn​yǐng.

A very exciting action movie is playing on TV right now.

sow verb
to sow seeds or plant crops

春天到了，农民们开始在田野里播撒希望的种子。

chūn​tiān dào le, nóng​mín men kāi​shǐ zài tián​yě lǐ bō sǎ xī​wàng de zhǒng​zi.

Spring has arrived, and farmers are beginning to sow the seeds of hope in the fields.

spread verb
to spread or disseminate ideas, rumors, or information

这档广播节目的信号已经播到了最偏远的山区。

zhè dàng guǎng​bō jié​mù de xìn​hào yǐ​jīng bō dào le zuì piān​yuǎn de shān​qū.

The signal for this radio program now reaches even the most remote mountainous areas.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,275th most common 99.9 per million
Movie subtitles
1,010th most common 103.6 per million appears in 30% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
21.4 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
28.0 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+64AD

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