播放

Character by character

• 播bō15 strokesHSK 3sow, spread; broadcast; cast away, reject
• 放fàng8 strokesHSK 1put, release, free, liberate

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Words with the same characters

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

• 放fàngHSK 1

  to put; to place; to release; to free; to let go; to let out; to set off (fireworks)

• 放弃fàng qìHSK 5

  to renounce; to abandon; to give up

• 放下fàng xiàHSK 2

  to lay down; to put down; to let go of; to relinquish; to set aside; to lower (the blinds etc)

• 放松fàng sōngHSK 4

  to relax; to slacken; to loosen

• 放心fàng xīnHSK 2

  to feel relieved; to feel reassured; to be at ease

• 释放shì fàngHSK 7

  to release; to set free; to liberate (a prisoner); to discharge

• 开放kāi fàngHSK 3

  to bloom; to open; to be open (to the public); to open up (to the outside); to be open-minded; unrestrained by convention; unconstrained in one's sexuality

• 放到fàng dàoHSK 3

  Put in

• 广播guǎng bōHSK 3

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

• 直播zhí bōHSK 3

  (TV, radio) to broadcast live; live broadcast; (Internet) to livestream; (agriculture) direct seeding

• 播bōHSK 6

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

• 改革开放gǎi gé kāi fàngHSK 7

  to reform and open to the outside world; refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980

• 解放jiě fàngHSK 5

  to liberate; to emancipate; liberation; refers to the Communists' victory over the Nationalists in 1949

• 传播chuán bōHSK 3

  to disseminate; to propagate; to spread

• 放手fàng shǒu

  to let go one's hold; to give up; to have a free hand

• 播出bō chūHSK 3

  to broadcast; to air (a TV program etc)

• 放大fàng dàHSK 5

  to enlarge; to magnify

• 放假fàng jiàHSK 1

  to have a holiday or vacation

• 放过fàng guòHSK 7

  to let off; to let slip by; to let sb get away with sth

• 发放fā fàngHSK 6

  to provide; to give; to grant

• 放学fàng xuéHSK 1

  to dismiss students at the end of the school day

• 放射fàng shè

  to radiate; radioactive

• 放置fàng zhìHSK 7

  to put

• 存放cún fàngHSK 7

  to deposit; to store; to leave in sb's care