# 報 — News

Frequency rank 254 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 海 (Sea), less common than 父 (Father).

- On’yomi: ほう
- Kun’yomi: むく
- Radical: 土 Earth (Kangxi 32)
- Frequency path: Level II of XX
- School grade: 5
- Strokes: 12

The gravedigger perches on his stool over the fresh mound, licks a stamp onto the happiness card for the widow, and rams the stake down flush so the man underneath never hears the news.

In words:

- 報じる ほうじる — to inform;to report
- 報ずる ほうずる — to inform;to report
- 電報 でんぽう — telegram

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