(zhuā) - to grab, to grasp, to catch in Mandarin
zhuāTraditional: 抓
Translation
to grab, to grasp, to catch
Word origin
抓 (zhuā) 'to grab, grasp' is a phono-semantic compound with the 扌 (shǒu, 'hand') radical and 爪 (zhǎo, 'claw') as the phonetic and semantic hint, a hand seizing like a claw.
- Origin
- phono-semantic compound
- Root
- 扌 (shǒu, 'hand' radical) + 爪 (zhǎo, 'claw', phonetic)
Stroke order
抓
Examples
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The police caught the thief.
！
Seize the opportunity!
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Be careful, don't let the child grab the knife.
沙。
The cat scratched the sofa.
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The police caught that thief.
抓 (zhuā) - to grab, to grasp, to catch.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 抓.
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