拔
to pull up; to pull out; to draw out by suction; to select; to pick; to stand out (above level); to surpass; to seize
8 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,081 U+62D4
How 拔 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
扌 (semantic, “hand”) + 犮 (phonetic, bá)
components: 扌 犮
How to remember it
pull out · Heisig RSH #2699
fingers + seeing-eye chihuahua
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 犮
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 犮 (bá) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 犮 sound component | bá | to pull up |
| 跋 | bá | to walk, to travel; epilogue, colophon |
| 钹 | bó | cymbals |
| 祓 | fú | to exorcise; to cleanse |
| 鲅 | bà | Chinese mackerel |
| 魃 | bá | drought demon |
| 茇 | bá | straw, thatch |
| 黻 | fú | special pattern of embroidery |
Words containing 拔
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 路见不平，拔刀相助 | lù jiàn bù píng , bá dāo xiāng zhù | lit. to intervene when one sees an injustice (idiom); fig. to rush to the rescue; to play … |
| 一毛不拔 | yī máo bù bá | (lit.) unwilling to spare a single hair (idiom); (fig.) extremely stingy |
| 阿拔斯王朝 | Ā bá sī Wáng cháo | Abbasid Empire (750-1258), successor of the Umayyad caliphate |
| 拔地而起 | bá dì ér qǐ | (idiom) (of a building etc) to rise out of the ground |
| 拔节期 | bá jié qī | elongation stage; jointing stage (agriculture) |
| 汉尼拔 | Hàn ní bá | Hannibal (name); Hannibal Barca (247-183 BC), Carthaginian general |
| 拔地 | bá dì | to rise steeply from level ground |
| 自拔 | zì bá | to free oneself; to extricate oneself from a difficult situation |
| 拔海 | bá hǎi | elevation (above sea level) |
| 海拔 | hǎi bá | height above sea level; elevation |
| 拔高 | bá gāo | to raise (one's voice); to overrate; to build up; to stand out; outstanding |
| 开拔 | kāi bá | to set out (of troops); departure; start date (of military expedition) |
| 连根拔 | lián gēn bá | to pull up by the roots; to uproot |
| 拔刀相助 | bá dāo xiāng zhù | see 路見不平，拔刀相助|路见不平，拔刀相助[lu4 jian4 bu4 ping2 , ba2 dao1 xiang1 zhu4] |
| 拔河 | bá hé | tug-of-war; to take part in a tug-of-war |
| 拔节 | bá jié | jointing (agriculture) |
| 矮子里拔将军 | ǎi zi li bá jiāng jūn | lit. choose a general from among the dwarfs; fig. choose the best person available (out of… |
| 拔毛 | bá máo | to pull out hair; to pluck; epilation |
| 鞋拔子 | xié bá zi | shoehorn |
| 拔尖儿 | bá jiān r | erhua variant of 拔尖[ba2 jian1] |