扯
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to pull; to tear; (of cloth, thread etc) to buy; to chat; to gossip; (coll.) (Tw) ridiculous; hokey
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 手 +4
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 扯
- Common rank
- #1,549
- Unicode
- U+626F
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
yank · Heisig RSH #1856
fingers + footprint
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 扯
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 步子太大，容易扯着蛋 | if you take too big a stride, you could easily rip your balls (catchphrase) (line spoken b… | |
| 东拉西扯 | to talk about this and that (idiom); to ramble incoherently | |
| 生拉活扯 | see 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4] | |
| 拉扯大 | (coll.) to bring up; to rear; to raise | |
| 扯鸡巴蛋 | to talk shit; to drivel; bullshit | |
| 扯家常 | to engage in small talk; to chit chat | |
| 白扯蛋 | variant of 白扯淡[bai2 che3 dan4] | |
| 扯皮条 | see 拉皮條|拉皮条[la1 pi2 tiao2] | |
| 狗扯羊皮 | to fuss around; to buzz about uselessly; to wag one's tongue | |
| 互相扯皮 | to pass the buck; to shirk responsibility | |
| 拉扯 | to drag; to pull; to raise a child (through difficulties); to help; to support; to drag in… | |
| 拉拉扯扯 | to tug at; to pull at sb aggressively; to take sb's hand or arm in a too familiar way; (de… | |
| 牵扯不清 | unclear; ambiguous; having an unclear relationship with | |
| 扯平 | to make even; to balance; (fig.) to be even; to call it quits | |
| 扯皮 | to wrangle; wrangling | |
| 扯后腿 | to be a drag or hindrance on sb | |
| 胡扯八溜 | to talk nonsense | |
| 扯直 | to straighten (by pulling or stretching); to be even (neither side losing out) | |
| 白扯淡 | (coll.) to talk rubbish | |
| 扯远 | to digress; to get sidetracked; to go off on a tangent |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 止 — compare how they read.