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爬

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 爬

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (巴) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
巴 *praː
芭 *praː
笆 *praː, *braːʔ
豝 *praː
鈀 *praː, *pʰraː
吧 *praː, *pʰraː
蚆 *praː, *pʰraː
疤 *praː
把 *praːʔ
爸 *praːs, *baʔ
弝 *praːs
靶 *praːs
葩 *pʰraː
舥 *pʰraː
妑 *pʰraː
帊 *pʰraːs
琶 *braː
爬 *braː
杷 *braː, *braːs, *braːs
跁 *braːʔ, *braːs
耙 *braːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *braː) : semantic 爪 + phonetic 巴 ‎(OC *praː).

Etymology

Cognate with 匍 (OC *baː).

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 爬
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3)
Final (韻) 麻 (98)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 蒲巴切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bˠa/
Pan
Wuyun		 /bᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ba/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /baɨ/
Li
Rong		 /ba/
Wang
Li		 /ba/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱa/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 pá
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 爬
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 pá
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bæ ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[b]ˤra/
English 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 爬
Reading # 1/1
No. 117
Phonetic
component		 巴
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 爬
Old
Chinese		 /*braː/

Definitions

爬

  1. to crawl; to creep
  2. to climb; to ascend; to get up
  3. to scramble

Compounds

  • 仰爬
  • 叉爬子
  • 吃裡爬外／吃里爬外
  • 搔背爬
  • 攀爬
  • 櫛垢爬癢／栉垢爬痒
  • 爬上爬下
  • 爬下
  • 爬出
  • 爬升
  • 爬坡
  • 爬孤棚
  • 爬山 (páshān)
  • 爬山虎
  • 爬山調／爬山调
  • 爬拉
  • 爬推
  • 爬格子
  • 爬梳
  • 爬梳剔抉
  • 爬樹／爬树
  • 爬櫛／爬栉
  • 爬沙
  • 爬泳
  • 爬灰
  • 爬牆虎／爬墙虎
  • 爬犁
  • 爬癢／爬痒
  • 爬竿
  • 爬羅／爬罗
  • 爬羅剔抉／爬罗剔抉
  • 爬耳搔腮
  • 爬船
  • 爬蟲／爬虫 (páchóng)
  • 爬行 (páxíng)
  • 爬行動物／爬行动物
  • 爬蹉
  • 爬高枝兒／爬高枝儿
  • 繃爬吊拷／绷爬吊拷
  • 跪爬
  • 連爬帶滾／连爬带滚
  • 連跌帶爬／连跌带爬
  • 順竿兒爬／顺竿儿爬

Japanese

Kanji

爬

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Korean

Hanja

爬 • ‎(pa) (hangeul 파)

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Vietnamese

Han character

爬 (ba, bò, bà, bà)

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