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爬
pá HSK2

crawl, climb

Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents

Phonosemantic compound. 爪 represents the meaning and 巴 represents the sound.

Components

爪
爪 Meaning component
zhǎo, zhuǎ hand, claw
巴
巴 Sound component
ba, bā to wish

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagartbae[b]ˤra climb on all fours

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart