爬
Tap the pinyin to hear it
to crawl; to climb; to get up or sit up
- HSK 3.0
- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 3
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 爪 +4
- Structure
- Lower-left enclosure 左下包
- Traditional
- 爬
- Common rank
- #2,012
- Unicode
- U+722C
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 爬
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 人往高处爬，水往低处流 | see 人往高處走，水往低處流|人往高处走，水往低处流[ren2 wang3 gao1 chu4 zou3 , shui3 wang3 di1 chu4 liu2] | |
| 爬行动物 | reptile | |
| 吃里爬外 | variant of 吃裡扒外|吃里扒外[chi1 li3 pa2 wai4] | |
| 爬虫动物 | reptile | |
| 爬格子 | (oral) to write (esp. for a living); to spell out laboriously on squared paper | |
| 草爬子 | tick (zoology) | |
| 爬山虎 | Boston ivy or Japanese creeper (Parthenocissus tricuspidata) | |
| 爬行类 | reptiles; also written 爬行動物|爬行动物 | |
| 爬山涉水 | to climb mountains and wade rivers (idiom); fig. to make a long and difficult journey | |
| 狗爬式 | dog paddle (swimming style); doggy style (sex position) | |
| 爬虫类 | reptiles; also written 爬行類|爬行类 | |
| 连滚带爬 | (idiom) stumbling and crawling; scrambling; frantically trying to escape | |
| 爬山 | to go for a hike (esp. in the hills or mountains) | |
| 爬行 | to crawl; to creep | |
| 爬上 | to climb up | |
| 虾爬子 | mantis shrimp | |
| 爬虫 | reptile; (Internet) web crawler | |
| 摸爬滚打 | to go through challenging experiences; to become seasoned (in one's profession etc) | |
| 爬灰 | variant of 扒灰[pa2 hui1] | |
| 爬升 | to rise; to ascend; to climb (airplane etc); to go up (sales figures etc); to gain promoti… |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 巴 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 巴 sound part | to desire, to wish for | |
| 把 | to grasp, to hold; to guard, to take; handle | |
| 肥 | fat, plump, obese; fertile | |
| 吧 | emphatic final particle | |
| 芭 | a plantain or banana palm | |
| 爸 | father, papa | |
| 靶 | target, mark | |
| 耙 | to rake | |
| 疤 | scar, cicatrix; birthmark | |
| 琶 | a guitar-like instrument (2) | |
| 笆 | bamboo fence | |
| 杷 | loquat tree; axe handle | |
| 粑 | tsamba, flat rice cake | |
| 钯 | palladium | |
| 鲃 | shark; bonito | |
| 岜 | rocky mountain |