to pull up

to pull out; to draw out by suction; to select; to pick; to stand out (above level); to surpass; to seize

hand (扌) + phonetic (犮) = pull out, extract

The hand radical anchors the physical act of yanking something free from where it is stuck. 犮 contributes the sound bá and does not add meaning here.

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HandSemantic
No independent semantic role in this characterPhonetic

他把地里的草都干净了。

tā bǎ dì lǐ de cǎo dōu bá gān jìng le。

He pulled all the weeds in the field clean out.

牙医帮她掉了一颗坏牙。

yá yī bāng tā bá diào le yī kē huài yá。

The dentist helped her pull out a bad tooth.

Words with 拔

拔节

bá jié

jointing (agriculture)

连根拔

lián gēn bá

to pull up by the roots

选拔

xuǎn bá

to select the best

开拔

kāi bá

to set out (of troops)

阿拔斯王朝

ā bá sī wáng cháo

Abbasid Empire (750-1258), successor of the Umayyad caliphate

雁过拔毛

yàn guò bá máo

lit. to grab feathers from a flying goose

隽拔

juàn bá

handsome (of people)

马桶拔子

mǎ tǒng bá zi

toilet plunger

一毛不拔

yī máo bù bá

lit. unwilling to spare a single hair (idiom)

人家牵驴你拔橛

rén jiā qiān lǘ nǐ bá jué

see 別人牽驢你拔橛子|别人牵驴你拔橛子[bie2 ren5 qian1 lu:2 ni3 ba2 jue2 zi5]

俊拔

jùn bá

outstandingly talented

出类拔萃

chū lèi bá cuì

to excel the common (idiom); surpassing

More characters with 扌