汇报

• Pinyin: huì bào
• Hanzi breakdown: 汇 = 氵(water) + 匚 (enclosure) — to gather together; 报 = 扌(hand) + 服 variant — to announce or report

Meaning

To report; to brief; a report. To present information about work progress or a situation to someone in authority.

Used primarily in workplace and institutional settings. Implies reporting upward to superiors or authorities. Common collocations include 汇报工作 (report on work), 汇报情况 (brief on the situation), and 工作汇报 (work report). More formal than 报告 in some contexts, as it specifically implies reporting to a higher authority.

Examples

1. 经理让我下午去汇报工作进展。 The manager asked me to go report on the work progress this afternoon.
2. 他向领导汇报了这次出差的情况。 He briefed the leadership on the situation during this business trip.
3. 每个月我们都要写一份工作汇报。 Every month we have to write a work report.

Usage Guide

Context: workplace, meetings, government

Tone: professional

Do Say

• 我来汇报一下项目的进展。(Let me report on the project's progress.)
• 你准备好汇报材料了吗？(Have you prepared the report materials?)

Don't Say

• 我跟朋友汇报了我的旅行 (Don't use 汇报 for sharing personal stories with friends — use 分享 or 说; 汇报 implies formal reporting to superiors)

Origin & History

汇 (huì, to gather/converge) + 报 (bào, to report/inform) — gathering information and presenting it as a report.

Cultural Context

Generation: All ages

Social background: Universal