Chinese symbol for “clippings”

剪报

jiǎn bào

Traditional: 剪報

newspaper cutting; clippings

The closest CC-CEDICT match for clippings is 剪报 (jiǎn bào), defined as: newspaper cutting; clippings.

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Characters and stroke order

剪 jiǎn

scissors; to cut, to divide, to separate

radical 18 ⼑ · 11 strokes

报 bào

to announce, to report; newspaper; payback, revenge

radical 64 ⼿ · 7 strokes

Traditional forms

報 bào

Related words

Other words that share a character with 剪报.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
剪辑 (剪輯)	jiǎn jí	to edit (raw footage: film, video, audio etc); edited version
剪刀	jiǎn dāo	scissors; measure word: 把 (bǎ)
修剪	xiū jiǎn	to prune; to trim
剪纸 (剪紙)	jiǎn zhǐ	papercutting (Chinese folk art); to make paper cutouts
剪掉	jiǎn diào	to cut off; to cut away
剪影	jiǎn yǐng	paper-cut silhouette; outline
报告 (報告)	bào gào	to inform; to report
报道 (報道)	bào dào	to report (news); report

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.