Character: 報
Modern (Beijing) reading: bào
Preclassic Old Chinese: pūʔs
Classic Old Chinese: pūh
Western Han Chinese: pūh
Eastern Han Chinese: pūh
Early Postclassic Chinese: pū̀
Middle Postclassic Chinese: pū̀
Late Postclassic Chinese: pū̀
Middle Chinese: pầw
English meaning : to plait, interweave
Russian meaning[s]: 1) отплатить, воздать должное; воздаяние; мзда; 2) доносить; докладывать; информировать; извещать; заявлять; доклад; донесение, рапорт; извещение; заявка; 3) газета; пресса; 4) результат
Comments: More widely used with the meaning 'to repay, requite, reward, respond, announce'. Sch. considers it to be a metaphorical shift of 'plait, interweave', but external evidence is rather against such an interpretation.
Radical: 32
Four-angle index: 5955
Karlgren code: 1058 a-b
Vietnamese reading: báo
Shijing occurrences: 29.2_, 29.4
