HSK 3.0 · LEVEL 6
报刊
Newspapers and periodicals; the press.
Free Chinese vocabulary flashcard · HSK 6
Why does 报刊 look like this?
'报' (bào) features the hand radical (扌), suggesting the act of handling or announcing news. '刊' (kān) combines the sound radical '干' with the knife radical (刂), which originally referred to carving woodblocks for printing. Together, they represent something 'announced and carved'—the classic newspaper!