爬

Translingual

Han character

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

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		爬

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pá (pa²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): paa⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): phà
• Min Nan (POJ): pê
• Wu (WT Romanisation): bo (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: pá
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄚˊ
    • Wade-Giles: p'a²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: par
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰa̠³⁵/

    • (file)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: paa⁴
    • Yale: pàh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paa⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰɑː²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: phà
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /pʰa¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pê
    • Tâi-lô: pê
    • IPA (Taipei): /pe²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pe¹³/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • WT Romanisation: bo (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /b̻o²³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (爬, reconstructed)
Character (爬), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 並 (3) Final: 麻 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 蒲巴切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/bɣa/	/bʱa/	/ba/	/bɯa/	/baɨ/	/ba/	/ba/

Old Chinese pronunciation (爬, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
爬								pá								‹ bæ ›								/*[b]ˤra/								climb on all fours
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
爬					117					巴					魚					0					爬					/*braː/

Definitions

爬

1. crawl; creep

   • 我們的寶寶剛開始會爬。 [MSC, trad.]

     我们的宝宝刚开始会爬。 [MSC, simp.]

     Wǒmen de bǎobǎo gāng kāishǐ huì pá. [Pinyin]

     Our baby is just starting to crawl.

   • 狗爬到汽車下藏著。 [MSC, trad.]

     狗爬到汽车下藏著。 [MSC, simp.]

     Gǒu pá dào qìchē xià cáng zhe. [Pinyin]

     The dog crept under the car to hide.

2. climb; ascend; get up

   • 猴子爬上了樹。 [MSC, trad.]

     猴子爬上了树。 [MSC, simp.]

     Hóuzi pá shàng le shù. [Pinyin]

     The monkey climbed up a tree.

3. scramble

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Japanese

Kanji

爬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

• On: は (ha)
• Kun: かく (kaku)

Compounds

Derived terms

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

爬 (ba, bò, bà, bà)

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