bǎ, bà
hold
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 巴 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
Clerical script
Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
bǎ
hold, take; guard; regard as; to hold; to contain; to grasp; to take hold of; handle; particle marking the following noun as a direct object; classifier for objects with handle; classifier for small objects: handful
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*pˤraʔ | paeX | bǎ | grasp (v.) |
Statistics
HSK level 3
Appears in 99.8558% of movies
64th most common character in movies
110th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+628A |
Shuowen | “把，握也。从手，把聲。” |
Sources
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