拔 — Chinese character

拔

bá

to uproot, to pull out; to select, to promote

Pinyin: bá
Radical: 64 ⼿ (Hand)
Strokes: 8
Components: 扌犮
Formation: pictophonetic — hand; meaning component 扌; sound component 犮
Japanese: 拔 as a kanji

Common words with 拔

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
海拔	hǎi bá	height above sea level; elevation
选拔 (選拔)	xuǎn bá	to select the best
提拔	tí bá	to promote to a higher job; to select for promotion
拔掉	bá diào	to pluck; to pull off
拔牙	bá yá	to extract a tooth
挺拔	tǐng bá	tall and straight
出类拔萃 (出類拔萃)	chū lèi bá cuì	to excel the common (idiom); surpassing; preeminent
拔除	bá chú	to pull out; to remove
剑拔弩张 (劍拔弩張)	jiàn bá nǔ zhāng	lit. with swords drawn and bows bent (idiom); fig. a state of mutual hostility; at daggers drawn
拔尖	bá jiān	top-notch (colloquial); to push oneself to the front
拔高	bá gāo	to raise (one's voice); to overrate
自拔	zì bá	to free oneself; to extricate oneself from a difficult situation

English words written with 拔

拔 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 1 · Art of War 3 · I Ching 2 · Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 5

Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.

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