Chinese Character Wiki

撥

bō

move

To dispatch 發 goods by hand 扌

Components
扌 meaning component

扌  Meaning component

shou, shǒu

  

hand

發 meaning component

發  Meaning component

fā

  

send out

Evolution

撥 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
撥 Clerical script Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)

Clerical script

Cao Wei (Three Kingdoms: 222-280 AD)
撥 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

拨 (撥) 

bō

move; dispel; distribute; plectrum, play stringed instrument; to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch

Most common words with 撥
Freq.
Word
Meaning

拨

to dial

拨打

to call

拨款

to allocate funds

拨号

to dial a telephone number

划拨

to assign

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤat

pat

bō

spread out


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 12.4459% of movies

1651st most common character in movies

1807th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

15

Simplified

拨

Unicode

U+64A5

Shuowen

“撥，治也。从手，發聲。”


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