Chinese Character 拔 Meanings and components.

Form

拔

Meaning

拔 meaning[3] in English

To Pull Up.

To Pull Out.

To Draw Out By Suction.

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Main Components

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

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 QIKK

How to write 拔

To write拔ba2to pull … you should write a combination of 扌shou5'hand' radical … , 犮ba2old variant … arranged in a 吅 shape:

扌 + 犮 = 拔

拔 Stroke Order

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

Components Tree

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

拔
Pinyin:ba2 Shape:吅
Meaning[3]: To Pull Up . To Pull Out . To Draw Out By Suction . To Select . To Pick . To Stand Out (Above Level) . To Surpass . To Seize
扌
Pinyin:shou5
Meaning[3]: 'Hand' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 64), Occurring In 提, 把, 打 Etc
犮
Pinyin:ba2 Shape:+
Meaning[3]: Old Variant Of 拔[Ba2]
犬
Pinyin:quan3
Meaning[3]: Dog . Kangxi Radical 94
大
Pinyin:da4
Meaning[3]: Big . Huge . Large . Major . Great . Wide . Deep . Older (Than) . Oldest . Eldest . Greatly . Very Much . (Dialect) Father . Father'S Elder Or Younger Brother
丶
Pinyin:zhu3
Meaning[3]: 'Dot' Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 3) . See Also 點|点[Dian3]
丿
Pinyin:pie3
Meaning[3]: Radical In Chinese Characters (Kangxi Radical 4) . See 撇[Pie3]

Notes

  • [1] A character's radical: 部bùsection 首shǒuheader Radical

  • [2] Hanzi stands for: 汉hànChinese 字zìCharacter

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