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主播 (zhǔ bō) — (noun) news anchor, program host; (noun) internet streamer, live streamer; (verb) to host, to stream (a program or live broadcast)

Definition

主播 covers both traditional TV/radio anchors and internet live-streamers. Contrast with 主持, which is the action 'to host/preside'; 主播 names the person.

noun
news anchorprogram hostinternet streamerlive streamer
verb
to hostto stream (a program or live broadcast)
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • 主播。
    Zhè wèi xīn wén zhǔ bō fēi cháng zhuān yè.
    This news anchor is very professional.
  • 主播，。
    Tā měi tiān wǎn shàng zhǔ bō yóu xì, guān zhòng hěn duō.
    He streams games every evening and has many viewers.
  • 主播。
    Nà wèi zhǔ bō de fěn sī shù liàng yǐ jīng chāo guò bǎi wàn le.
    That streamer's fan count has already exceeded one million.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

主zhǔmain; host
播bōbroadcast

主 gives hosting or main, 播 gives broadcasting, so the result is a broadcast host.

Characters in this word

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

The old forms that became 主 showed a lamp or torch with a flame at the top; other forms showed wood on fire or a spirit tablet.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
扌Written in full as手shǒuhand
Sound part声符shēngfú
番
番fān播bō
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

播 is built from 扌, a hand radical, plus 番 as a sound part. The hand part marks it as something done by hand.

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