Chinese symbol for “newsprint”
报纸
bào zhǐ
Traditional: 報紙
newspaper; newsprint; measure word: 份 (fèn), 期 (qī), 张 (zhāng)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for newsprint is 报纸 (bào zhǐ), defined as: newspaper; newsprint; measure word: 份 (fèn), 期 (qī), 张 (zhāng).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “newsprint”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 报纸.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 报告 (報告) | bào gào | to inform; to report |
| 报道 (報道) | bào dào | to report (news); report |
| 日报 (日報) | rì bào | daily newspaper |
| 情报 (情報) | qíng bào | information; intelligence |
| 报导 (報導) | bào dǎo | to report (in the media); (news) report |
| 纸币 (紙幣) | zhǐ bì | bank notes; paper currency |
| 图纸 (圖紙) | tú zhǐ | blueprint; drawing |
| 纸张 (紙張) | zhǐ zhāng | paper |
See also: Japanese symbol for “newsprint”.
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.