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把 7 strokes

把 bǎ — to hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate

7 strokes · radical 扌 (hand)

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A way to remember it

A hand beside 巴. A grip, a handle, the classifier for anything with one — 一把刀, 一把椅子 — and the grammar word that puts an object before its verb.

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A hand beside 巴.

Words it turns up in

把握一把手二把手

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