爬
pá HSK2

crawl, climb

爬 pá
to climb verb
To climb, scramble, or scale something; often used for hiking or climbing trees.

那座山很容易爬。

nà zuò shān hěn róng​yì pá.

That mountain is easy to climb.

猫会爬树，狗不会。

māo huì pá shù, gǒu bù​huì.

Cats can climb trees, but dogs can't.

to crawl verb
To crawl or creep; describes humans moving on hands and knees or insects and reptiles moving close to the ground.

我们在会说话之前先学会爬。

wǒ​men zài huì shuō huà zhī​qián xiān xué huì pá.

We learn to crawl before we learn to talk.

to get up verb
To get up or sit up from a lying position, as in rising from bed or picking oneself up after a fall.

我爬起来，开始了练习。

wǒ pá qǐ lái, kāi​shǐ le liàn​xí.

I got up and started practicing.

to scratch
To scratch or scrape; used specifically for relieving an itch or gathering things with a rake-like motion

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,426th most common 78.8 per million
Movie subtitles
1,459th most common 46.8 per million appears in 21% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
57.1 per million appears in 19% of films
Written text
48.3 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 3
HSK 3.0
Level 2
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+722C

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