Chinese Character Wiki
抓

zhuā

scratch

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

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

扌 is a component form of 手.

爪 sound,meaning component

爪  Sound Meaning component

zhǎo, zhuǎ

  

hand, claw

Definitions

抓  

zhuā

scratch; clutch, seize, grab; to grab; to catch; to arrest; to snatch; to scratch

Most common words with 抓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

抓

to grab

抓住

to grab

抓紧

to grasp firmly

抓获

to arrest

抓捕

to seize

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts](ˤ)ru

tsraew

zhuā

grasp

*tsˤ<r>uʔ

tsraewX

zhuā

grasp


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 67.1152% of movies

483rd most common character in movies

992nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6293


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