HSK 6 · Verbs

暴露 bàolù “to expose” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 暴露 means

  1. to expose
  2. to reveal
  3. to lay bare

How to say 暴露

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale暴bào4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale露lù4th tone, falling

暴露 in a sentence

  1. 不要把皮肤长时间暴露在阳光里。

    Búyào bǎ pífū cháng shíjiān bàolù zài yángguāng lǐ.

    Don’t expose your skin to the sun for too long.

    Sentence #1575784 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 暴露 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 暴 (bào) with each of its parts in a different colour
暴bàosudden
  • 日sun · rì
  • 共all · gòng
  • 水water · shuǐ
The character 露 (lù) with each of its parts in a different colour
露lùdew
  • 雨rain · yǔMeaning part
  • 路road · lùSound part

雨 hints at the meaning (rain); 路 (lù) hints at the sound. Compare it with lù.

How to write 暴露

暴 15 strokes · 露 21 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

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

Words related to 暴露

Words with 暴

暴力bàolì · violence风暴fēngbào · storm

Words with 露

揭露jiēlù · to expose流露liúlù · to reveal透露tòulù · to reveal泄露xièlòu · to leak

More words: Common Verbs

报答bàodá · to repay (a kindness)爆发bàofā · to break out报复bàofu · to retaliate保管bǎoguǎn · to look after包围bāowéi · to surround爆炸bàozhà · to explode背叛bèipàn · to betray奔波bēnbō · to rush about

FAQs

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