把

把 (Kangxi radical 64, 手+4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手日山 (QAU), four-corner 5701₇, composition ⿰扌巴)

• KangXi: page 420, character 21
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11874
• Dae Jaweon: page 768, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 3, page 1845, character 4
• Unihan data for U+628A

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *praːʔ) : semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 巴 (OC *praː).

把

1. to hold; to grasp; to take

   媽媽手把手教我寫字。 [MSC, trad.]
   妈妈手把手教我写字。 [MSC, simp.]

   Māma shǒubǎshǒu jiào wǒ xiězì. [Pinyin]

   My mom held my hand and taught me to write.

   • 縱有健婦把鋤犁，禾生隴畝無東西。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     纵有健妇把锄犁，禾生陇亩无东西。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 8th century, 杜甫 (Du Fu), 《兵車行》 (The Army Wagons: A Ballad); translated by Stephen Owen

     Zòng yǒu jiànfù bǎ chúlí, hé shēng lǒngmǔ wú dōngxī. [Pinyin]

     Even though there are sturdy wives to hold the hoe and plow, the grain grows on the field boundary slopes and one can’t tell east from west.

2. to control; to dominate

   把控  ―  bǎkòng  ―  to control

3. to guard; to have control over

   把守  ―  bǎshǒu  ―  to guard; to defend

   把握  ―  bǎwò  ―  to grasp; to control; to master

4. (colloquial) to be close; to be near
5. to hold a baby while it relieves itself

   把尿  ―  bǎniào  ―  to hold a baby while it urinates

6. (traditional Chinese medicine) to feel (for the pulse)

   我替施主把把脈。／我替施主把把脉。  ―  Wǒ tì shīzhǔ bǎ bǎmài.  ―  Let me feel the pulse for you.

7. A light verb or preposition placed before the object of a sentence to allow it to be placed before the verb, giving greater flexibility in complex sentence construction.

   他把刀放在桌子上。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

   Tā bǎ dāo fàng zài zhuōzi shàng. [Pinyin]

   He put the knife on the table.

8. Used before a “subject + verb + complement” structure; to cause to; to make

   真的把我氣死了！／真的把我气死了！  ―  Zhēnde bǎ wǒ qìsǐ le!  ―  It really made me so mad!

9. bundle; bunch

   火把  ―  huǒbǎ  ―  torch (stick with a flame on one end)

10. handle; knob; grip (a part of an object which is held in the hand)

    車把／车把  ―  chēbǎ  ―  handlebar (of a bicycle)

    刀把  ―  dāobà  ―  knife handle; hilt

11. stem (of a flower, leaf, fruit, etc.)

    葉把兒／叶把儿  ―  yèbàr  ―  stem of a leaf

12. Classifier for objects that can be held using handles or knobs, such as guns, chairs, brooms, or umbrellas. ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

    三把刀  ―  sān bǎ dāo  ―  three knives

    四把鉸剪／四把铰剪 [Cantonese]  ―  sei³ baa² gaau³ zin² [Jyutping]  ―  four pairs of scissors

    一把刀囝 [Min Dong, trad. and simp.]

    From: 2002, 李榮／李荣 (Li Rong), chief editor, 《現代漢語方言大詞典》／《现代汉语方言大词典》 [Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects], Nanjing: Jiangsu Education Publishing House, →ISBN, page 1677

    siŏh bā dŏ̤-giāng / [suoʔ⁵ pa³³ to⁵⁵⁻⁵³ ^(k-)iaŋ³³] [Bàng-uâ-cê / IPA]

    a pocketknife

    兩把掃把／两把扫把  ―  liǎng bǎ sǎobǎ  ―  two brooms

13. Classifier for handfuls of something, such as grains, soil.

    一把米  ―  yī bǎ mǐ  ―  a handful of rice

14. Classifier for bundles or bunches.

    一把韭菜  ―  yī bǎ jiǔcài  ―  a bunch of garlic chives

15. Classifier for some abstract ideas, such as force, effort or age.

    加把勁兒！／加把劲儿！  ―  Jiā bǎ jìnr!  ―  Make an extra effort!

16. Classifier for something done with the hand.

    幫你一把／帮你一把  ―  bāng nǐ yī bǎ  ―  to give you a helping hand

17. (Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien) Classifier for wheeled vehicles.

    一把跤踏車 [Hokkien, trad.]
    一把跤踏车 [Hokkien, simp.]

    From: 2002, 李榮／李荣 (Li Rong), chief editor, 《現代漢語方言大詞典》／《现代汉语方言大词典》 [Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects], Nanjing: Jiangsu Education Publishing House, →ISBN, page 1677

    chi̍t pé kha-ta̍h-chhia [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

    a bicycle

18. Placed after numerals or classifiers to express uncertainty; approximately
19. (dialectal) to give
20. a surname

• A great deal of linguistic research has been carried out regarding the grammar of the "bǎ construction".

• (to control):

• (to be close):

• (light verb or preposition):

• (handle): 柄 (bǐng)
• (classifier):

• (to give):

把

1. ^† Alternative form of 爬 (pá, “to scratch”)..
2. a surname

• 束

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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• Go-on: へ (he)
• Kan-on: は (ha, Jōyō)
• Kun: たば (taba, 把); つか (tsuka)

• 把(は)捉(そく) (hasoku, “grasping”)

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• Kun’yomi
• (Tokyo) た​ば [táꜜbà] (Atamadaka – [1])[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ta̠ba̠]

把(たば) • (-taba) 

1. counter for bundles

把(たば) • (taba) 

1. bundle, bunch, batch, sheaf, coil

From Middle Chinese 把 (MC pˠa^X).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pʰa̠]
• Phonetic hangul: [파]

Wikisource 把 (eumhun 잡을 파 (jabeul pa))

1. Hanja form^? of 파 (“to take; to hold”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

把: Hán Nôm readings: bã, bả, bạ, bỡ, bữa, vả, vã, vỗ, bá, bẻ, bửa, lả, sấp, trả

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