把

把 U+628A, 把
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-628A
← 抉
[U+6289] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 抋 →
[U+628B]

Translingual

Han character

把 (radical 64 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手日山 (QAU), four-corner 57017, composition ⿰扌巴)

References

  • KangXi: page 420, character 21
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11874
  • Dae Jaweon: page 768, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1845, character 4
  • Unihan data for U+628A

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 把

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (巴) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
巴 *praː
芭 *praː
笆 *praː, *braːʔ
豝 *praː
鈀 *praː, *pʰraː
吧 *praː, *pʰraː
蚆 *praː, *pʰraː
疤 *praː
把 *praːʔ
爸 *praːs, *baʔ
弝 *praːs
靶 *praːs
葩 *pʰraː
舥 *pʰraː
妑 *pʰraː
帊 *pʰraːs
琶 *braː
爬 *braː
杷 *braː, *braːs, *braːs
跁 *braːʔ, *braːs
耙 *braːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *praːʔ) : semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 巴 (OC *praː).

Pronunciation 1

Note:
  • bǎ - all senses except “stem”;
  • bà - “handle; stem”;
  • bǎi - preposition.
Note:
  • baa3 - rare variant for “handle; stem”.
Note:
  • bā - “to hold; handle; classifier”;
  • bá - “handle”.
Note:
  • pé/pée - vernacular;
  • pá - literary;
  • pà - used in 遏手把.
Note:
  • bê2 - vernacular;
  • ba2 - literary.
Note:
  • 2po - vernacular;
  • 2pa - literary.
Rime
Character 把
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 幫 (1)
Final (韻) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 愽下切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pˠaX/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pᵚaX/
Shao
Rongfen		 /paX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /paɨX/
Li
Rong		 /paX/
Wang
Li		 /paX/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /paX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bǎ
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 把
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bǎ
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pæX ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pˤraʔ/
English grasp (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 把
Reading # 1/1
No. 105
Phonetic
component		 巴
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 把
Old
Chinese		 /*praːʔ/

Definitions

把

  1. to hold; to grasp; to take
  2. to guard; to have control over
    把守  ―  bǎshǒu  ―  to guard; to defend
    把握  ―  bǎwò  ―  to grasp; to control; to master
  3. (traditional Chinese medicine) to feel (for the pulse)
  4. A light verb or preposition placed before the object of a sentence to allow it to be placed before the verb, giving greater flexibility in complex sentence construction.
    他把刀放在桌子上。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]
    Tā bǎ dāo fàng zài zhuōzi shàng. [Pinyin]
    He put the knife on the table.
  5. Used before a “subject + verb + complement” structure; to cause to; to make
    真的把我氣死了！ / 真的把我气死了！  ―  Zhēnde bǎ wǒ qì sǐ le!  ―  It really made me so mad!
  6. bundle; bunch
  7. handle; knob; grip (a part of an object which is held in the hand)
    車把 / 车把  ―  chēbǎ  ―  handlebar (of a bicycle)
    刀把  ―  dāobà  ―  knife handle; hilt
  8. stem (of a flower, leaf, fruit, etc.)
    葉把兒 / 叶把儿  ―  yèbàr  ―  stem of a leaf
  9. Classifier for objects that can be held using handles or knobs, such as guns, chairs, brooms, or umbrellas.
    三把刀  ―  sān bǎ dāo  ―  three knives
    四把鉸剪 / 四把铰剪 [Cantonese]  ―  sei3 baa2 gaau3 zin2 [Jyutping]  ―  four pairs of scissors
    兩把掃把 / 两把扫把  ―  liǎng bǎ sǎobǎ  ―  two brooms
  10. Classifier for handfuls of something, such as grains, soil.
  11. Classifier for bundles or bunches.
  12. Classifier for some abstract ideas, such as force, effort or age.
  13. Classifier for something done with the hand.
  14. Placed after numerals or classifiers to express uncertainty; approximately
  15. A surname​.

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms of 把 (“”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 將
Mandarin Beijing 把
Taiwan 把
Jinan 把
Xi'an 把
Wuhan 把
Chengdu 把
Yangzhou 把
Hefei 把、幫
Cantonese Guangzhou 將
Hong Kong 將
Yangjiang 將
Gan Nanchang 把
Hakka Meixian 將、將把
Xingning 捉到
Huidong 將
Qujiang 將
Xiaosanjiang 將
Changting 將
Pingyu 捉
Wuping 拿
Ninghua 把
Ruijin 將
Shicheng 拿
Shangyou 拿
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 將
Liudui (S. Sixian) 將
Hsinchu (Hailu) 將
Dongshi (Dabu) 將
Zhuolan (Raoping) 將
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 將
Jin Taiyuan 把
Min Bei Jian'ou 拿、邀
Min Dong Fuzhou 將、共、揢
Matsu 揢
Min Nan Xiamen 將、共
Quanzhou 將、共
Zhangzhou 將、共
Taipei 將、共
Kaohsiung 將、共
Chaozhou 將、對、個
Wu Suzhou 拿
Wenzhou 逮
Xiang Changsha 把
Shuangfeng 把

Compounds

Pronunciation 2

Definitions

把

  1. † Alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”).
  2. A surname​.

Japanese

Kanji

把

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Etymology

Kanji in this term
把
たば
Grade: S
kun’yomi

Pronunciation

Alternative forms

Counter

把 (hiragana たば, rōmaji -taba)

  1. counter for bundles

Noun

把 (hiragana たば, rōmaji taba)

  1. bundle, bunch, batch, sheaf, coil

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

把 • (pa) (hangeul 파, McCune–Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

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Vietnamese

Han character

把 (bã, bả, bạ, bỡ, bữa, vả, vã, vỗ, bá, bẻ, bửa, lả, sấp, trả)

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