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把 — stroke order

bǎ
ㄅㄚˇ
Meaning
to grasp
Strokes
7
Radical
扌
Practise 把 in the full tool →

Watch how to write 把 (bǎ) stroke by stroke. 把 has 7 strokes and means “to grasp”. It appears in common words such as 把握 (to grasp) and 把手 (handle). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.

Common words with 把

The most common words that use 把 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.

把握bǎwòto grasp把手bǎshǒuhandle拖把tuōbǎmop把門bǎménto stand as a goalkeeper個把gèbǎone or two把玩bǎwánto turn around in one's hands

How 把 is written

Radical
扌
Components
扌 + 巴
Formation
Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 扌 and a phonetic component 巴 (hand).

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