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拔

bá

HSK 6 Character

What 拔 means

1. to pull up
2. to pull out
3. to draw out by suction
4. to select
5. to pick
6. to stand out (above level)
7. to surpass
8. to seize

Example sentences

• 出类拔萃！
  Outstanding!
• 您的牙要拔掉。
  Nín de yá yào bádiào.
  Your tooth must be extracted.
• 你拔插头了吗？
  Have you pulled the plug out?
• 你有鞋拔子吗？
  Do you have a shoehorn?
• 我把蛀牙拔掉了。
  Wǒ bǎ zhùyá bádiào le.
  I got my decayed tooth pulled out.
• 插头是你拔的吗？
  Did you pull the plug out?

Words starting with 拔

• 拔苗助长bá miáo zhù zhǎngto spoil things through excessive enthusiasm (idiom)
• 拔掉bá diàoto pluck; to pull off; to pull out
• 拔腿bá tuǐto break into a run
• 拔尖bá jiāntop-notch (colloquial); to push oneself to the front
• 拔牙bá yáto extract a tooth
• 拔地而起bá dì ér qǐ(idiom) (of a building etc) to rise out of the ground
• 拔河bá hétug-of-war; to take part in a tug-of-war
• 拔高bá gāoto raise (one's voice); to overrate; to build up
• 拔取bá qǔto pick out; to select and recruit; to pluck
• 拔地bá dìto rise steeply from level ground
• 拔染bá rǎndischarge
• 拔根bá gēn(lit. and fig.) to uproot
• 拔毒bá dúdraw out pus by applying a plaster to the affected area
• 拔毛bá máoto pull out hair; to pluck; epilation
• 拔海bá hǎielevation (above sea level)
• 拔营bá yíngto strike camp
• 拔节bá jiéjointing (agriculture)
• 拔丝bá sīwire drawing; candied floss (cooking); spun sugar or toffee (coating)
• 拔群bá qúnoutstanding; exceptionally good
• 拔除bá chúto pull out; to remove
• 拔顶bá dǐngtopping (mining)
• 拔示巴Bá shì bāBathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David (according to the Hebrew Bible)
• 拔节期bá jié qīelongation stage; jointing stage (agriculture)
• 拔罐bá guàncupping glass; fire cupping…

Words containing 拔

• 海拔hǎi báheight above sea level; elevation
• 选拔xuǎn báto select the best
• 提拔tí báto promote to a higher job; to select for promotion
• 挺拔tǐng bátall and straight
• 出类拔萃chū lèi bá cuìto excel the common (idiom); surpassing; preeminent; outstanding
• 自拔zì báto free oneself; to extricate oneself from a difficult situation
• 坚韧不拔jiān rèn bù báfirm and indomitable (idiom); tenacious and unyielding
• 剑拔弩张jiàn bá nǔ zhānglit. with swords drawn and bows bent (idiom); fig. a state of mutual hostility…
• 劲拔jìng bátall and straight
• 孤拔Gū báAmédée Courbet (1826-1885), a French admiral who won a series of important land and naval…
• 把拔bǎ bá(Taiwan; slang) daddy (pun on 爸爸
• 拓拔Tuò bábranch of the Xianbei 鲜卑 nomadic people, founders of Wei 北魏 of the Northern Dynasties…
• 超拔chāo báoutstanding; to fast-track; to elevate
• 开拔kāi báto set out (of troops); departure; start date (of military expedition)
• 鞋拔xié báshoehorn
• 热插拔rè chā báhot swapping
• 连根拔lián gēn báto pull up by the roots; to uproot
• 鞋拔子xié bá zishoehorn
• 坚忍不拔jiān rěn bù báfortitude
• 阿拔斯王朝Ā bá sī Wáng cháoAbbasid Empire (750-1258), successor of the Umayyad caliphate
• 马桶拔子mǎ tǒng bá zitoilet plunger
• 俊拔jùn báoutstandingly talented
• 吹灯拔蜡chuī dēng bá làlit. to blow out the lamp and put out the candle (idiom); fig. to die; to bite the dust
• 甄拔zhēn báto select

Characters built on 犮

These share the phonetic component 犮 (bá), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 跋bápostscript; to trek across mountains
• 鲅bà(bound form) Spanish mackerel
• 魃bádrought demon
• 茇bábetel

Characters that look like 拔

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 按ànto press; to push; to leave aside or shelve
• 彼bǐthat; those; (one) another
• 拨bōto push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate
• 挂guàto hang; to suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead
• 披pīto drape over one's shoulders; to open; to unroll
• 扳bānto pull; to turn (sth) around; to turn around (a situation)

Sounds the same

Read bá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 跋postscript; to trek across mountains
• 菝used in 菝葜
• 魃drought demon
• 妭(literary) beautiful woman; old variant of 魃
• 軷sacrifice
• 茇betel
• 犮old variant of 拔