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报纸

bào zhǐ 4–3

newspaper; newsprint

HSK level
HSK 2
HSK 2.0 level 2 · HSK 3.0 level 2
Characters
2
报 · 纸
Syllables
2
bào zhǐ
Frequency
Less common
corpus count 2,232

Part of speech: n

Character by character

  • 报bào7 strokesHSK 2 traditional 報report, tell, announce
  • 纸zhǐ7 strokesHSK 2 traditional 紙paper

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

Example sentences

  • 我不看报纸。

    Wǒ bù kàn bào zhǐ

    I don't read the newspapers.

  • 我不太看报纸。

    Wǒ bù tài kàn bào zhǐ

    I don't read newspapers much.

  • 去拿一下报纸。

    Qù ná yī xià bào zhǐ

    Get me the newspaper.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words with the same characters

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

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