颁布
bān bù · HSK 7
to issue
📜 BAN-BU = ban announces, bu spreads — a decree BANNED and BOOT-ed out to all
颁 (bān) means to promulgate, 布 (bù) means to spread or distribute. Together: spreading an official decree far and wide. The sounds echo English ban plus boot — authority stamping out a new law.
布 — hand 手 (as 𠂇) + cloth 巾
Originally a pictograph of woven cloth held in a hand, combining a hand element (𠂇) with 巾 'cloth/towel'. The core meaning 'cloth' was extended to 'spread out, display' (as cloth is unfurled), giving modern senses like 'announce' and 'arrange'.