抢
qiǎngTraditional: 搶
#1490 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
to grab, to snatch, to rob
Word origin
A phono-semantic compound with the hand radical 扌 (shǒu) for the grabbing action and 仓 (cāng) as the phonetic element.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 扌 (shǒu, hand) + 仓 (cāng, phonetic)
Stroke order
抢
Examples
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The thief snatched her bag.
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Everyone is rushing to grab the cheap tickets.
具。
Do not fight your little brother for the toy.
账。
He insisted on paying the bill.
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We need to race against time to finish the task.
抢 (qiǎng) means to grab, snatch or rob, and by extension to scramble or compete for something. The hand radical points to the physical grabbing action.
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