IDENTITY
拔báto pull out; to pull up
HSK 4Top 900
CORE MEANING
to pull out; to pull up
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to pull outHSK4
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 扌hand radical (shǒu)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- left-right compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿰扌犮
- hand
- gives the sound bá
USAGE
Common words
拔牙báyáto extract a tooth
选拔xuǎnbáto select
挺拔tǐngbátall and straight
Graded examples
农民在田里拔草。Nóngmín zài tián lǐ bá cǎo.HSK5
Farmers pull weeds in the field.
RELATIONS
In these chengyu
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 拨
LEARNING
Memory aid
A hand (扌) yanking the plant (犮) up — pulling out.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #900
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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