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把
把
Translingual
Han character
把 (radical 64 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手日山 (QAU), four-corner 57017, composition ⿰扌巴)
References
- 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
Chinese
|
simp. and trad. |
把 | |
|---|---|---|
Glyph origin
| Characters in the same phonetic series (巴) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
|---|---|
| Old Chinese | |
| 巴 | *praː |
| 芭 | *praː |
| 笆 | *praː, *braːʔ |
| 豝 | *praː |
| 鈀 | *praː, *pʰraː |
| 吧 | *praː, *pʰraː |
| 蚆 | *praː, *pʰraː |
| 疤 | *praː |
| 把 | *praːʔ |
| 爸 | *praːs, *baʔ |
| 弝 | *praːs |
| 靶 | *praːs |
| 葩 | *pʰraː |
| 舥 | *pʰraː |
| 妑 | *pʰraː |
| 帊 | *pʰraːs |
| 琶 | *braː |
| 爬 | *braː |
| 杷 | *braː, *braːs, *braːs |
| 跁 | *braːʔ, *braːs |
| 耙 | *braːs |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *praːʔ) : semantic 扌 + phonetic 巴 (OC *praː).
Pronunciation
- Mandarin
- Cantonese (Jyutping): baa2, baa3
- Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pá
- Min Dong (BUC): bā / bá
- Min Nan (POJ): pé / pá / pà
- Wu (Wiktionary): po (T2); pa (T2)
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄚˇ
- Wade-Giles: pa3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: baa
- IPA (key): /pa̠²¹⁴/
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- (Standard Chinese, Beijing, erhua-ed)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄚˇㄦ
- Wade-Giles: parh3
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: baal
- IPA (key): /pɑɻ²¹⁴/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄚˋ
- Wade-Giles: pa4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: bah
- IPA (key): /pa̠⁵¹/
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing, erhua-ed)+
- Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄅㄚˋㄦ
- Wade-Giles: parh4
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ball
- IPA (key): /pɑɻ⁵¹/
- Note: bà - variant pronunciation for “handle”.
- (Standard Chinese, Beijing)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Jyutping: baa2, baa3
- Yale: bá, ba
- Cantonese Pinyin: baa2, baa3
- IPA (key): /pɑː³⁵/, /pɑː³³/
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)+
- Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pá
- Hakka Romanization System: ba`
- Hagfa Pinyim: ba3
- IPA: /pa³¹/
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
- Min Dong
- (Fuzhou)
- Bàng-uâ-cê: bā / bá
- IPA (key): /pa³³/, /pɑ²¹³/
- Note: bā - “to hold; handle; classifier”; bá - variant pronunciation for “handle”.
- (Fuzhou)
- Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
- Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pé / pá / pà
- Tâi-lô: pé / pá / pà
- Phofsit Daibuun: pea, par, pax
- IPA (Xiamen): /pe⁵³/, /pa⁵³/, /pa²¹/
- IPA (Quanzhou): /pe⁵⁵⁴/, /pa⁵⁵⁴/, /pa⁴¹/
- IPA (Zhangzhou): /pe⁵³/, /pa⁵³/, /pa²¹/
- IPA (Taipei): /pe⁵³/, /pa⁵³/, /pa¹¹/
- IPA (Kaohsiung): /pe⁴¹/, /pa⁴¹/, /pa²¹/
- Note: pé - vernacular; pá - literary.
- (Hokkien)
- Wu
- (Shanghainese)
- Wiktionary: po (T2); pa (T2)
- IPA (key): /po³⁴/, /pᴀ³⁴/
- Note: 2po - vernacular; 2pa - literary.
- (Shanghainese)
| Rime | |
|---|---|
| Character | 把 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 幫 (1) |
| Final (韻) | 麻 (98) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | II |
| Fanqie | 愽下切 |
| Reconstructions | |
| Zhengzhang Shangfang |
/pˠaX/ |
| Pan Wuyun |
/pᵚaX/ |
| Shao Rongfen |
/paX/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank |
/paɨX/ |
| Li Rong |
/paX/ |
| Wang Li |
/paX/ |
| Bernard Karlgren |
/paX/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex |
bǎ |
| Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 把 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) |
bǎ |
| Middle Chinese |
‹ pæX › |
| Old Chinese |
/*pˤraʔ/ |
| English | grasp (v.) |
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; | |
| Zhengzhang system (2003) | |
|---|---|
| Character | 把 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 105 |
| Phonetic component |
巴 |
| Rime group |
魚 |
| Rime subdivision |
0 |
| Corresponding MC rime |
把 |
| Old Chinese |
/*praːʔ/ |
Definitions
把
- to hold; to grasp; to take
- to guard; to have control over
- (TCM) to feel (for the pulse)
- A special type of helping verb which, when placed in front of the object of a sentence, allows for the object of the sentence to be placed before the verb. This allows for greater flexibility in complex sentence construction.
- used to introduce a “subject + verb + complement” structure; to cause to; to make
- bundle; bunch
- handle; knob; grip (a part of an object which is held in the hand)
- Classifier for objects that can be held using handles or knobs, such as guns, chairs, brooms, umbrellas.
- Classifier for handfuls of something, such as grains, soil.
- Classifier for bundles or bunches.
- Classifier for some abstract ideas, such as force, effort or age.
- Classifier for something done with the hand.
- placed after numerals or classifiers to express uncertainty; approximately
Synonyms
Compounds
Derived terms from 把
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Japanese
Kanji
把
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Readings
Compounds
| Kanji in this term |
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| 把 |
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たば Grade: S |
| kun'yomi |
Pronunciation
Alternative forms
Counter
把 (hiragana たば, romaji -taba)
- counter for bundles
Noun
References
- ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
- ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, ISBN 978-4-14-011112-3
Korean
Hanja
把 • (pa) (hangeul 파, McCune-Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)
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