crawl, climb

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
爪 meaning component

  Meaning component

zhǎozhuǎ

  

hand, claw

巴 sound component

  Sound component

  

to wish

Definitions

 

crawl, creep; climb; scramble; to crawl; to climb; to get up or sit up

Most common words with 爬
Freq.
Word
Meaning

to crawl

爬山

hiking

爬行

to crawl

爬升

to rise

攀爬

to climb

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[b]ˤra

bae

climb on all fours


Statistics

HSK level 2

Appears in 20.9194% of movies

1459th most common character in movies

1426th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+722C


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