# 报警 (bàojǐng)

In Mandarin Chinese, 报警 (bàojǐng) means “to call the police; to sound an alarm”. It is part of the HSK 5 vocabulary list in the official HSK 3.0 standard.

- Meaning: to call the police; to sound an alarm
- Pinyin: bàojǐng (bao4 jing3)
- Traditional: 報警
- HSK 3.0 · Level 5
- HSK 2.0 · Level 6

## Examples

- 发现钱包丢了，他立刻报警。
  Fāxiàn qiánbāo diū le, tā lìkè bàojǐng.
  After discovering his wallet was lost, he called the police immediately.

## Characters

- [报](https://hanziro.com/word/bao-report/) (bào): to report; newspaper
- 警 (jǐng): to alert; to warn

https://hanziro.com/word/bao-jing-call-police/

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