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Chinese symbol for “announcement”

公报
gōng bào
Traditional: 公報
announcement; bulletin; communique

The closest CC-CEDICT match for announcement is 公报 (gōng bào), defined as: announcement; bulletin; communique.

Before using these characters for a tattoo, check them with a native speaker. Dictionary words often have several meanings, and the right choice depends on context.

Characters and stroke order

公 gōng
fair, equitable; public; duke
radical 12 ⼋ · 4 strokes
报 bào
to announce, to report; newspaper; payback, revenge
radical 64 ⼿ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “announcement”

WordPinyinMeaning
告示gào shiannouncement
启事 (啟事)qǐ shìannouncement (written, on billboard, letter, newspaper or website); to post information
公告gōng gàopost; announcement
通告tōng gàoto announce; to give notice; announcement
文告wén gàowritten statement; proclamation

Related words

Other words that share a character with 公报.

WordPinyinMeaning
公司gōng sīcompany; firm; corporation; measure word: 家 (jiā)
公开 (公開)gōng kāiopen; overt; public; to make public; to release
公民gōng míncitizen
公布 (公佈)gōng bùvariant of 公布 (gōng bù)
公里gōng lǐkilometer
报告 (報告)bào gàoto inform; to report
报道 (報道)bào dàoto report (news); report
报纸 (報紙)bào zhǐnewspaper; newsprint

See also: Japanese symbol for “announcement”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.