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爬

pá

crawl, climb

Phonosemantic compound. 爪 represents the meaning and 巴 represents the sound.

Components
爪 meaning component

爪  Meaning component

zhǎo, zhuǎ

  

hand, claw

巴 sound component

巴  Sound component

bā

  

to wish

Definitions

爬  

pá

crawl, creep; climb; scramble; to crawl; to climb; to get up or sit up

Most common words with 爬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

爬

to crawl

爬山

hiking

爬行

to crawl

爬升

to rise

攀爬

to climb

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ˤra

bae

pá

climb on all fours


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 20.9194% of movies

1459th most common character in movies

1426th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+722C


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