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把戏

bǎ xì

HSK 6 2-character word Traditional 把戲

What 把戏 means

1. acrobatics; jugglery
2. trick; ploy

The characters in 把戏

• 把bǎto hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar
• 戏xìtrick; drama; play

Example sentences

• 猴子能学会很多把戏。
  Hóuzi néng xuéhuì hěn duō bǎxì.
  Monkeys can learn a lot of tricks.
• 那通电话是引他离开房子的一个小把戏。
  Nà tōngdiànhuà shì yǐn tā líkāi fángzi de yī gè xiǎo bǎxì.
  The phone call was a trick to get him out of the house.

Words containing 把戏

• 变把戏biàn bǎ xìto perform magic; to do magic tricks; prestidigitation
• 鬼把戏guǐ bǎ xìsinister plot; dirty trick; cheap trick

Sounds the same

Read bǎ xì, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 把细(dialect) see 仔细

Where 把戏 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · áng–bǎ (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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