HSK 5 · Verbs

报道 bàodào “to report (news)” in Chinese

Traditional 報道

What 报道 means

  1. to report (news)
  2. report

Measure word 篇 piān or 份 fèn · 一篇报道 yì piān bàodào

How to say 报道

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale报bào4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale道dào4th tone, falling

报道 in a sentence

  1. 他觉得必须报道这件事。

    Tā juéde bìxū bàodào zhè jiàn shì.

    He felt compelled to report the incident.

    Sentence #4948552 from Tatoeba

  2. 汤姆写了篇非常有深度的报道。

    Tāngmǔ xiě le piān fēicháng yǒu shēndù de bàodào.

    Tom wrote a really in-depth report.

    Sentence #7787472 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 报道 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 报 (bào) with each of its parts in a different colour
报bàoto report; to inform; to announce
  • 扌hand form of 手 · shǒu
  • 卩seal · jié
  • 又again · yòu
The character 道 (dào) with each of its parts in a different colour
道dàoroad; path 条,股)
  • 首head · shǒuSound part
  • 辶walking form of 辵 · chuòMeaning part

辶 hints at the meaning (walking); 首 (shǒu) hints at the sound. Compare it with dào.

Memory aidPicture walking 辶 with your head 首 leading the way: a road, a way.

How to write 报道

报 7 strokes · 道 12 strokes

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报道 (bàodào) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 报道 (bàodào). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 报道

Words with 报

报纸bàozhǐ · newspaper报名bàomíng · to sign up报到bàodào · to report for duty报告bàogào · to inform预报yùbào · forecast报社bàoshè · newspaper office报仇bàochóu · to take revenge报答bàodá · to repay (a kindness)报复bàofu · to retaliate报酬bàochou · pay

Words with 道

知道zhīdao · to know (a fact)街道jiēdào · street道dào · (m.w. for orders味道wèidao · flavour道歉dàoqiàn · to apologise难道nándào · don’t tell me …地道dìdao · authentic道德dàodé · virtue频道píndào · frequency道理dàoli · reason

More words: Thinking & Talking

支持zhīchí · to support重视zhòngshì · to take seriously总结zǒngjié · to sum up尊重zūnzhòng · to esteem保留bǎoliú · to keep抱怨bàoyuàn · to complain辩论biànlùn · debate表达biǎodá · to express

FAQs

报道 (bàodào) means “to report (news)” or “report”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it bàodào: bào with a 4th tone, then dào with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 报道 is written 報道. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 篇 (piān) or 份 (fèn). For example, one to report (news) is 一篇报道 (yì piān bàodào).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type baodao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 报道 from the suggestions. Typing baodao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
报道 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.