爬

Translingual

Han character

爬 (radical 87 爪+4, 8 strokes, cangjie input 竹人日山 (HOAU), four-corner 7723₁)

1. crawl, creep
2. climb
3. scramble

References

• KangXi: page 688, character 32
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 19662
• Dae Jaweon: page 1101, character 21
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 2031, character 5
• Unihan data for U+722C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

爬 (Yale pa4)

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Japanese

Kanji

爬 (uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

Readings

• On: は (ha)
• Kun: かく (kaku)

Compounds

• 掻爬 (そうは, sōha)
• 爬虫 (はちゅう, hachū)
• 爬虫類 (はちゅうるい, hachūrui)

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Korean

Hanja

爬 (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune-Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

爬 (pinyin pá (pa2), zhèng (zheng4), Wade-Giles p'a², cheng⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

爬 (ba, bò, bà, bà)