扒 (bā): to peel, to skin, to tear
扒 (bā) is a Chinese character meaning “to peel.” Classified as HSK Level 7-9 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 扌 (semantic) and 八 (phonetic). It ranks #2810 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 扒 hand. Its radical form 扌 (hand) appears in many related characters such as 手 (shǒu, hand), 打 (dǎ, hit, make), 找 (zhǎo, to look for).
Definitions
- to peel
- to skin
- to tear
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 扒手noun | pá shǒu | pickpocket |
| 扒开 | bā kāi | to pry open or apart |
| 扒窃verb | pá qiè | to steal |
| 吃里扒外 | chī lǐ pá wài | (idiom) to work against the interests of sb one derives support from |
| 扒拉verb | bā la | (coll.) to push lightly |
| 扒头儿 | bā tou r | handhold (to pull oneself up) |
| 周扒皮 | zhōu bā pí | Zhou the exploiter, archetypal character in short story 半夜雞叫|半夜鸡叫 |
| 扒高踩低 | pá gāo cǎi dī | crawl high, step low (idiom) |
| 扒屋牵牛 | bā wū qiān niú | to sack the home and lead off the cattle (proverb) |
| 扒车verb | bā chē | to pull oneself up onto a moving vehicle |
| 扒皮verb | bā pí | to flay |
| 扒饭verb | pá fàn | to push food into one's mouth using chopsticks while holding one's bowl up to one's mouth |
| 揪心扒肝 | jiū xīn bā gān | (idiom) extremely anxious |
| 牛扒noun | niú pá | (dialect) beef steak |
| 鸡扒noun | jī pá | see 雞排|鸡排 |
扒 appears in 24 compound words: 67 as the first character, 21 as the last, and 13 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 扒 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (2)
Showing 1 of 2 idioms containing 扒.
Example Sentences
他扒了一个电话，约朋友晚上一起吃饭。
tā bā le yī gě diàn huà , yāo péng yǒu wǎn shǎng yī qǐ chī fàn .
He made a phone call to arrange dinner with a friend that evening.
但很多时候，我能扒到层层叠叠的公众号文章，甚至新闻报道的引用，却始终找不到原始数据。
dàn hěn duō shí hòu , wǒ néng bā dào céng céng dié dié de gōng zhòng hào wén zhāng , shèn zhì xīn wén bào dào de yǐn yòng , què shǐ zhōng zhǎo bù dào yuán shǐ shǔ jù .
But often, I can dig through layer upon layer of WeChat Official Account articles—and even citations from news reports—yet I still can’t find the original data.
吃菠萝蜜时扒出来的果核，很多人都扔掉了吧？
chī 菠 luó mì shí bā chū lái de guǒ hé , hěn duō rén dōu rēng diào le ba ?
When you eat jackfruit, you peel out the seeds—I bet a lot of people just throw them away, right?
没苦硬吃的“蓬莱扒仙”，究竟能否暗渡陈仓？
méi kǔ yìng chī de péng lái bā xiān , jiū jìng néng fǒu àn dù chén cāng ?
Can “Penglai Ba Xian,” which isn’t one to take things lying down, pull off a surprise move?
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bā sù cái , zuò shì pín , kè lóng shēng yīn A I mó gǎi shēng yì . . .
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再惹我生气，小心我扒了你的皮！
Zài rě wǒ shēngqì, xiǎoxīn wǒ bā le nǐ de pí!
Anger me again, I might just peel your skin off.
我的信用卡在地铁上被扒了。
Wǒ de xìnyòngkǎ zàidì tiě shàng bèi bā le.
My credit card was stolen on the subway.
这里要小心扒手。
Zhèlǐ yào xiǎoxīn páshǒu.
Beware of pickpockets here.
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