IDENTITY
拿náto take; to hold
HSK 1Top 200
CORE MEANING
to take; to hold
- Part of speech
- verb
- Register
- neutral
Senses
- 1.to take; to holdHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 手hand radical (shǒu)
- strokes
- 10
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱合手
- closing together
- hand
USAGE
Common words
拿东西ná dōngxito take things
拿着ná zheto hold
Graded examples
请帮我拿一下。Qǐng bāng wǒ ná yíxià.HSK2
Please help me hold this.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
LEARNING
Memory aid
A hand (手) closing (合) around an object — taking, holding.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #200
- 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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