Kanji Detail for 播 - "sow, spread, broadcast"

播

Jinmeiyō Kanji

Meaning
播 means "sow, spread, broadcast."
1. Sow - To scatter seeds for planting.
2. Spread - To disseminate widely.
3. Broadcast - To distribute broadly.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

plant; sow

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

sow, spread; broadcast; cast away, reject

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

(bound form) to sow (seeds); to spread (ideas, rumors etc); to broadcast (radio signals etc); Taiwan pr. [bo4]

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

to sow seeds, to scatter; to broadcast, to spread

XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

To spread. Such as 播種. To proclaim. Such as 播告. | To flee. Such as 播蕩, 播遷. | To abandon. Such as 播棄. | To shake. (Analects) "Shaking the small drums."
Onyomi

ban(バン)

ha(ハ)

han(ハン)
Kunyomi

ma.ku(ま-く)
Strokes

15 strokes
Radical

手扌 (te・tehen)
Related Keywords
sow spread broadcast cultivate disperse disseminate distribute expand extend propagate scatter seed widely