攀
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to climb (by pulling oneself up); to implicate; to claim connections of higher status
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 19
- Radical
- 手 +15
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 攀
- Common rank
- #1,874
- Unicode
- U+6500
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
climb · Heisig RSH #2536
林 woods + sheaf + St. Bernard dog + 手 hand
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 攀
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 高攀不上 | to be unworthy to associate with (sb of higher social status) | |
| 高不可攀 | too high to reach (idiom); eminent and unapproachable | |
| 中华攀雀 | (bird species of China) Chinese penduline tit (Remiz consobrinus) | |
| 攀山家 | mountaineer (HK) | |
| 白冠攀雀 | (bird species of China) white-crowned penduline tit (Remiz coronatus) | |
| 攀亲道故 | (idiom) to use claims to kinship or friendship to climb socially | |
| 攀高结贵 | lit. to cling to the high, connect to the rich (idiom); to try to attach oneself to the ri… | |
| 攀枝花市 | Panzhihua, prefecture-level city in Sichuan Province 四川省[Si4 chuan1 Sheng3] | |
| 攀高枝儿 | erhua form of 攀高枝[pan1 gao1 zhi1] | |
| 高攀 | social climbing; to claim connections with people in higher social class | |
| 攀龙附凤 | see 扳龍附鳳|扳龙附凤[ban1 long2 fu4 feng4] | |
| 不敢高攀 | lit. not dare to pull oneself up high (humble term); I cannot presume on your attention | |
| 攀附权贵 | to cling to the powerful and rich (idiom); social climbing | |
| 攀比 | to make invidious comparisons; to compete with; to emulate | |
| 攀枝花 | see 攀枝花市[Pan1 zhi1 hua1 Shi4] | |
| 攀枝花 | kapok (tree) | |
| 攀高枝 | (coll.) to try to improve one's social standing by marrying or affiliating with people of … | |
| 攀亲 | to seek to profit by family ties | |
| 攀岩 | rock climbing; to climb a rockface | |
| 攀折 | to snap off (flowers, leaves, twigs etc from a tree or shrub) |