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扒

bā, pá

scratch

Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 八 represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

八 sound component

八  Sound component

bā

  

eight

Definitions

扒  

bā

scratch; dig up; crawl; crouch; to peel; to skin; to tear; to pull down; to cling to (sth on which one is climbing); to dig

扒  

pá

to rake up; to steal; to braise; to crawl

Most common words with 扒
Freq.
Word
Meaning

扒

to peel

扒手

pickpocket

扒窃

to steal

扒开

to pry open or apart

扒拉

to push lightly

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 2.6269% of movies

2774th most common character in movies

3121st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

5

Unicode

U+6252


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