撥
bō HSK7

move

拨 (撥) bō
dial verb
to dial a telephone number

你拨错号码了。

nǐ bō cuò hào​mǎ le.

You dialed the wrong number.

allocate verb
to assign or set aside money or resources

公司拨了一笔款项用于研发。

gōng​sī bō le yī bǐ kuǎn​xiàng yòng​yú yán​fā.

The company allocated a sum of money for research and development.

batch measure word
a classifier for groups of people or sets of items

第一拨客人已经到了。

dì​yī bō kè​rén yǐ​jīng dào le.

The first group of guests has arrived.

push aside verb
to push aside, poke, pluck, or turn with the hand, foot, or a tool

他拨开挡在前面的树枝。

tā bō kāi dǎng zài qián​miàn de shù​zhī.

He pushed aside the branches in his way.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,807th most common 46.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,651st most common 34.5 per million appears in 12% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
27.0 per million appears in 8% of films
Written text
50.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
拨
Strokes
15
Unicode
U+64A5

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)