把

Translingual

Etymology

手 ＋ 巴

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

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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		把

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bǎ (ba³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baa²
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): pá
• Min Nan (POJ): pé / pá
• Wu (WT Romanisation): po (T2); pa (T2)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bǎ
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚˇ
    • Wade-Giles: pa³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: baa
    • IPA ^(key): /pa̠²¹⁴/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: baa²
    • Yale: bá
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baa²
    • IPA ^(key): /pɑː³⁵/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pá
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /pa³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pé / pá
    • Tâi-lô: pé / pá
    • IPA (Taipei): /pe⁴¹/, /pa⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pe⁵³/, /pa⁵³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: po (T2); pa (T2)
    • IPA ^(key): /po³⁴/, /pᴀ³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (把, reconstructed)
Character (把), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 麻 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 愽下切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/pɣaX/	/paX/	/paX/	/pɯaX/	/paɨX/	/paX/	/paX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (把, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
把								bǎ								‹ pæX ›								/*pˤraʔ/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
把					105					巴					魚					0					把					/*praːʔ/

Definitions

把

1. (measure word for anything that can be held in one's hand)

   三把刀  ―  sān bǎ dāo  ―  three knives

2. handle (a part of an object which is held in the hand)
3. (Beginning Mandarin) a special type of helping verb which, when placed in front of the object of a sentence, allows for the object of the sentence to be placed before the verb. This allows for 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.

4. to guard; to have control over

   把守 (bǎshǒu, "to guard; to defend")

   把握 (bǎwò, "to grasp; to control; to master")

See also

special helping verb

• (Min Nan) 共 (kā)

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Japanese

Kanji

把

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

• Goon: へ (he)
• Kan’on: は (ha)
• Kun: つか (tsuka)

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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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