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把子

Mandarin · pinyin bà zi

handle

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把: bǎ · hold, take; guard; regard as
子: zǐ · offspring, child; fruit, seed of; first earthly branch

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4–5 · ba4 zi5

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noun

(diminutive, colloquial) bundle; bunch; roll
(opera) stage weapons and props used in traditional Chinese opera (as a whole)
(opera) mock fighting in traditional Chinese opera
blood-brother relations; blood brothers
(archaic) alternative form of 靶子 (bǎzi, “target”)
(obsolete) timber raft

classifier

(colloquial) Classifier for objects in bundles or bunches.
(colloquial) Classifier for people in gangs.
(colloquial) Classifier for certain abstract concepts, such as effort, physical strength, etc.

noun

(diminutive, colloquial) handle (of an object)

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