把

把 (radical 64, 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手日山 (QAU), four-corner 5701₇, composition ⿰扌巴)

• KangXi: page 420, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11874
• Dae Jaweon: page 768, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1845, character 4
• Unihan data for U+628A

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *praːʔ) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 巴 (OC *praː).

把

1. to hold; to grasp; to take
2. to guard; to have control over

   把守  ―  bǎshǒu  ―  to guard; to defend

   把握  ―  bǎwò  ―  to grasp; to control; to master

3. (traditional Chinese medicine) to feel (for the pulse)
4. A light verb or preposition placed before the object of a sentence to allow it to be placed before the verb, giving greater flexibility in complex sentence construction.

   他把刀放在桌子上。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Tā bǎ dāo fàng zài zhuōzi shàng. [Pinyin]

   He put the knife on the table.

5. Used before a “subject + verb + complement” structure; to cause to; to make

   真的把我氣死了！ / 真的把我气死了！  ―  Zhēnde bǎ wǒ qìsǐ le!  ―  It really made me so mad!

6. bundle; bunch
7. handle; knob; grip (a part of an object which is held in the hand)

   車把 / 车把  ―  chēbǎ  ―  handlebar (of a bicycle)

   刀把  ―  dāobà  ―  knife handle; hilt

8. stem (of a flower, leaf, fruit, etc.)

   葉把兒 / 叶把儿  ―  yèbàr  ―  stem of a leaf

9. Classifier for objects that can be held using handles or knobs, such as guns, chairs, brooms, or umbrellas.

   三把刀  ―  sān bǎ dāo  ―  three knives

   四把鉸剪 / 四把铰剪 [Cantonese]  ―  sei³ baa² gaau³ zin² [Jyutping]  ―  four pairs of scissors

   兩把掃把 / 两把扫把  ―  liǎng bǎ sǎobǎ  ―  two brooms

10. Classifier for handfuls of something, such as grains, soil.
11. Classifier for bundles or bunches.
12. Classifier for some abstract ideas, such as force, effort or age.
13. Classifier for something done with the hand.
14. Placed after numerals or classifiers to express uncertainty; approximately
15. A surname​.

把

1. ^† Alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”).
2. A surname​.

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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• Go-on: へ (he)
• Kan-on: は (ha, Jōyō)
• Kun: たば (taba, 把); つか (tsuka)

• 把 (は)捉 (そく) (hasoku, “grasping”)

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) た​ば [táꜜbà] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
  • IPA^(key): [ta̠ba̠]

• 束

把 (hiragana たば, rōmaji -taba)

1. counter for bundles

把 (hiragana たば, rōmaji taba)

1. bundle, bunch, batch, sheaf, coil

把 • (pa) (hangeul 파, McCune–Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

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把 (bã, bả, bạ, bỡ, bữa, vả, vã, vỗ, bá, bẻ, bửa, lả, sấp, trả)

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