Chinese Character 扒 Meanings and components.

Form

扒

Meaning

扒 meaning^[3] in English

To Peel.

To Skin.

To Tear.

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Main Components

By analyzing its shape, the hanzi^[2] character 扒 can be seen as a composition of 2 main shapes where their meanings are 'hand' radical in … (扌) , and eight (八)

Its radical^[1] is: 手 (shou3) which means: Hand, (Formal) To Hold, Person Engaged In Certain Types Of Work, Person Skilled In Certain Types Of Work, Personal(Ly), Convenient, Classifier For Skill, Cl:雙|双[Shuang1],隻|只[Zhi1], .手shou3hand

In cangjie it is written with QC

How to write 扒

To write扒ba1to peel you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 八ba1eight arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 八 = 扒

扒 Stroke Order

The order of the strokes to write 扒 should be followed in this specific way.

Components Tree

The composition tree, or the characters that form each component of 扒, looks as follow:

扒

Pinyin:ba1 Shape:吅

Meaning^[3]: To Peel . To Skin . To Tear . To Pull Down . To Cling To (Sth On Which One Is Climbing) . To Dig

扌

Pinyin:shou5

Meaning^[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc

八

Pinyin:ba1

Meaning^[3]: Eight . 8

Notes

[1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical
[2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter
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