bá, quǎn
pull up
Pictograph of a dog (犬) with an object on it that is making the dog stumble. Original form of 跋. Also used as a variant of 拔 (to pull up).
Components
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+72AE |
Shuowen | “犮,走犬皃。从犬而丿之。曳其足則剌犮也。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.750-751
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