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把
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- 把
- bǎ · hold, take; guard; regard as
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Mandarin tones
3 · ba3
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
baa2 · baa3
Cantonese word readings for 把. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section
Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.
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- to hold; to grasp; to take
- to control; to dominate
- to guard; to have control over
- (colloquial) to be close; to be near
- to hold a baby while it relieves itself
- (traditional Chinese medicine) to feel (for the pulse)
- A light verb or preposition placed before the object of a sentence to allow it to be placed before the verb, giving greater flexibility in complex sentence construction.
- Used before a “subject + verb + complement” structure; to cause to; to make
- bundle; bunch
- handle; knob; grip (a part of an object which is held in the hand)
- stem (of a flower, leaf, fruit, etc.)
- Classifier for objects that can be held using handles or knobs, such as guns, chairs, brooms, or umbrellas. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier
- Classifier for handfuls of something, such as grains, soil.
- Classifier for bundles or bunches.
- Classifier for fire.
- Classifier for some abstract ideas, such as force, effort or age.
- Classifier for something done with the hand.
- Classifier for times of recreations.
- (Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien) Classifier for wheeled vehicles.
- Placed after numerals or classifiers to express uncertainty; approximately
- (archaic or dialectal Mandarin, Gan, Xiang) to give
- (Xiang) to; with (following verbs to indicate the handing over or passing of something)
- a surname
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- (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”)
- a surname
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