zhuā

scratch

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
扌 meaning component

  Meaning component

shoushǒu

  

hand

is a component form of .

爪 sound,meaning component

  Sound Meaning component

zhǎozhuǎ

  

hand, claw

Definitions

 

zhuā

scratch; clutch, seize, grab; to grab; to catch; to arrest; to snatch; to scratch

Most common words with 抓
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to grab

抓住

to grab

抓紧

to grasp firmly

抓获

to arrest

抓捕

to seize

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[ts](ˤ)ru

tsraew

zhuā

grasp

*tsˤ<r>uʔ

tsraewX

zhuā

grasp


Statistics

HSK level 3

Appears in 67.1152% of movies

483rd most common character in movies

992nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+6293


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