HSK 6 · Media

曝光 bàoguāng “to expose (to the public)” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 曝光 means

  1. to expose (to the public)
  2. exposure (photography)
  3. to expose (photography)
  4. (fig.) to expose (a scandal)
  5. (advertising) exposure

How to say 曝光

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale曝bào4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale光guāng1st tone, high and level

曝光 in a sentence

  1. 汤姆和我之间的秘密被曝光了。

    Tāngmǔ hé wǒ zhījiān de mìmì bèi bàoguāng le.

    The secret between Tom and me was exposed.

    Sentence #2333743 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 曝光 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 曝 (bào) with each of its parts in a different colour
曝bàoTaiwan pr.
  • 日sun · rìMeaning part
  • 暴violent · bàoSound part

日 hints at the meaning (sun); 暴 (bào) hints at the sound. Compare it with bào.

The character 光 (guāng) with each of its parts in a different colour
光guānglight; ray
  • ⺌small form of 小 · xiǎo
  • 兀weak · wù

How to write 曝光

曝 19 strokes · 光 6 strokes

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

Words related to 曝光

Words with 光

光guāng · light阳光yángguāng · sunshine光临guānglín · (formal) to honour with one’s presence光滑guānghuá · glossy光明guāngmíng · bright光盘guāngpán · compact disc (CD)时光shíguāng · time目光mùguāng · gaze观光guānguāng · to go sightseeing风光fēngguāng · scenery

More words: Media & Arts

字幕zìmù · caption作品zuòpǐn · work (of art)版本bǎnběn · version扮演bànyǎn · to play the role of标题biāotí · title布告bùgào · notice传单chuándān · leaflet创作chuàngzuò · to create

FAQs

曝光 (bàoguāng) means “to expose (to the public)” or “exposure (photography)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it bàoguāng: bào with a 4th tone, then guāng with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 曝光 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type baoguang with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 曝光 from the suggestions. Typing baoguang into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
曝光 is an HSK 6 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.