HSK 5 · Science

预报 yùbào “forecast” in Chinese

Traditional 預報

What 预报 means

  1. forecast

How to say 预报

  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale预yù4th tone, falling
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale报bào4th tone, falling

预报 in a sentence

  1. 明天预报有雪。

    Míngtiān yùbào yǒu xuě.

    Snow is forecast for tomorrow.

    Sentence #785999 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 天气预报一点也不可靠。

    Tiānqì yùbào yìdiǎn yě bù kěkào.

    The weather forecast is not reliable at all.

    Sentence #400068 from Tatoeba

  3. 天气预报说明天下午会下雨。

    Tiānqì yùbào shuō míngtiān xiàwǔ huì xiàyǔ.

    The weather forecast says it will rain tomorrow afternoon.

    Sentence #1516102 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 预报 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 预 (yù) with each of its parts in a different colour
预yùto advance
  • 予to give · yúSound part
  • 页page · xiéMeaning part

页 hints at the meaning (page); 予 (yú) hints at the sound. Compare it with yù.

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

How to write 预报

预 10 strokes · 报 7 strokes

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

Words related to 预报

Words with 预

预习yùxí · to prepare a lesson预订yùdìng · to place an order预防yùfáng · to prevent预先yùxiān · in advance预料yùliào · to expect预期yùqī · to expect预言yùyán · to predict干预gānyù · to intervene预算yùsuàn · budget预兆yùzhào · omen

Words with 报

报纸bàozhǐ · newspaper报名bàomíng · to sign up报道bàodào · to report (news)报到bàodào · to report for duty报告bàogào · to inform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

More words: Science & Technology

下载xiàzài · to download信号xìnhào · signal学术xuéshù · academic硬件yìngjiàn · hardware注册zhùcè · to register饱和bǎohé · saturated备份bèifèn · to back up标本biāoběn · specimen

FAQs

预报 (yùbào) means “forecast”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it yùbào: yù with a 4th tone, then bào 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, 预报 is written 預報. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yubao with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 预报 from the suggestions. Typing yubao into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
预报 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.