拔 (bá)
to pull out; to unplug
How 拔 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Traditional
- 拔
- Simplified
- 拔 (unchanged)
Components
- 扌 hand
- 𠂇 left hand
- 丶 dot
- 又 right hand
Common words using 拔
- 海拔 hǎibá
- height above sea level; elevation
- 自拔 zìbá
- to free oneself; to extricate oneself from a difficult situation
- 出類拔萃 chūlèibácuì
- to excel the common (idiom); surpassing; preeminent; outstanding
- 堅韌不拔 jiānrènbùbá
- firm and indomitable (idiom); tenacious and unyielding
- 拔掉 bádiào
- to pluck; to pull off; to pull out
- 拔毛 bámáo
- to pull out hair; to pluck; epilation
- 拔河 báhé
- tug-of-war; to take part in a tug-of-war
- 拔火罐 báhuǒguàn
- suction cup (used in Chinese medicine to draw the blood and qi 氣|气); detachable suction chimney to make a stove draw
- 拔牙 báyá
- to extract a tooth
- 拔絲 básī
- wire drawing; candied floss (cooking); spun sugar or toffee (coating)
- 拔罐 báguàn
- cupping glass; fire cupping (acupressure technique of Chinese medicine, with fired vacuum cup applied to the skin); ventouse (vacuum method used in obstetrics)
- 拔除 báchú
- to pull out; to remove
拔 in a sentence
出門前要把插頭拔掉。
Chūmén qián yào bǎ chātóu bádiào.
“Unplug the plugs before going out.”
How common is 拔?
拔 is the 1,500th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 94.6% of all running text.
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