Character Details
| hold (a ); grasp (a); {MW} Things with handles or bunches | Ascii: 23450 | w307 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 把 | bǎ | ba | 3 | 扌 (hand) + 巴 (cling) → hold | 把 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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Grasp the pizza crust with your fingers. | ||||||||||
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| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
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| - My pencil is blunt, could you lend me a knife to sharpen it? | - He cut the meat with a blunt knife | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 64 - 户 | hù | hand | door | door frame | 户 房 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 扌 (hand) + 巴 (cling) → hold | 手 (semantic) | 巴 (phonetic) | phonetic from 巴 | ||||||||