直播

Character by character

• 直zhí8 strokesHSK 2straight, erect, vertical
• 播bō15 strokesHSK 3sow, spread; broadcast; cast away, reject

Each character links to its stroke order page with a tracing and a writing exercise.

Words with the same characters

These words share at least one character with 直播. Reading them together is how the character starts to stick — the same characters in a different context.

• 一直yī zhíHSK 2

  straight (in a straight line); continuously; always; all the way through

• 直接zhí jiēHSK 2

  direct (opposite: indirect 间接); immediate; straightforward

• 直到zhí dàoHSK 3

  until

• 直zhíHSK 3

  straight; to straighten; fair and reasonable; frank; straightforward; (indicates continuing motion or action); vertical; vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters

• 简直jiǎn zhíHSK 3

  simply; really

• 广播guǎng bōHSK 3

  broadcast; broadcasting; to broadcast; (formal) to propagate; to publicize

• 播bōHSK 6

  to sow; to scatter; to spread; to broadcast; Taiwan pr. [bò]

• 传播chuán bōHSK 3

  to disseminate; to propagate; to spread

• 播放bō fàngHSK 3

  to broadcast; to transmit (by radio or TV)

• 播出bō chūHSK 3

  to broadcast; to air (a TV program etc)

• 直升机zhí shēng jīHSK 6

  helicopter

• 直至zhí zhìHSK 7

  lasting until; up till (the present)

• 直觉zhí juéHSK 7

  intuition

• 直线zhí xiànHSK 5

  straight line; sharply (rise or fall)

• 转播zhuǎn bōHSK 7

  relay; broadcast (on radio or TV)

• 直径zhí jìngHSK 7

  diameter

• 垂直chuí zhí

  perpendicular; vertical

• 正直zhèng zhíHSK 7

  upright; upstanding; honest

• 直奔zhí bènHSK 7

  to go straight to; to make a beeline for

• 直达zhí dáHSK 7

  to reach (a place) directly; (transportation) to reach the destination without changing service or without stopping; (of a train, flight etc) direct; nonstop

• 直视zhí shìHSK 7

  to look straight at

• 播种bō zhòng

  to grow (maize etc) from seed; to plant (maize etc) by sowing seed

• 重播chóng bōHSK 7

  to replay; to rerun; (agriculture) to reseed; to oversow

• 演播室yǎn bō shìHSK 7

  broadcasting studio