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 | pá shǒu | pickpocket |
| 扒开 | bā kāi | to pry open or apart |
| 扒窃 | pá qiè | to steal |
| 扒拉 | 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[ban4 ye4 ji1 jiao4] |
| 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 | bā chē | to pull oneself up onto a moving vehicle |
| 扒皮 | bā pí | to flay |
| 扒饭 | 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 | niú pá | (dialect) beef steak |
| 鸡扒 | jī pá | see 雞排|鸡排[ji1 pai2] |
| 扒灰 | pá huī | incest between father-in-law and daughter-in-law |
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)
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.
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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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