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漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

把: grasp, faggot

Also: bunch, counter for bundles

JLPT N17 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

扌 carries the meaning · 巴 gives the sound

7 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

ハha · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 把握はあくgrasp (of the situation, meaning, etc.)
  • 大雑把おおざっぱrough (estimate, summary, etc.); broad

ワwa · on'yomi

  • 把わcounter for bundles

Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Imagine a hand reaching out from the left to grab, hold, or shape the world! When you see these three strokes, think of a hand in motion.”
More in the 扌 hand story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
扌

Also built on hand (扌)

All 88
巴

Also built on comma-design (巴)

把 takes the 巴 family's reading, ハ (ha).

Also read ハ

5 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read ワ

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
把 grasp · 扌
vs邑 village · 口
把 has 扌 where 邑 has 口.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · bǎ

Same form: 把 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
把 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
把 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin bǎ most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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