柄 — Chinese character
柄
bǐng
handle, lever, knob; authority
- Pinyin
- bǐng
- Radical
- 75 ⽊ (Tree)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 木 丙
- Formation
- pictophonetic — tree; meaning component 木; sound component 丙
- Japanese
- 柄 as a kanji
Common words with 柄
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 手柄 | shǒu bǐng | handle; video game controller |
| 把柄 | bǎ bǐng | handle; (fig.) information that can be used against sb |
| 笑柄 | xiào bǐng | a matter for ridicule; an object of ridicule |
| 权柄 (權柄) | quán bǐng | authority |
| 叶柄 (葉柄) | yè bǐng | petiole; leafstalk |
| 曲柄 | qū bǐng | crank handle |
| 剑柄 (劍柄) | jiàn bǐng | sword hilt |
| 长柄 (長柄) | cháng bǐng | long handle; stem |
| 话柄 (話柄) | huà bǐng | a pretext for gossip; a matter for derision |
| 斗柄 | dǒu bǐng | handle of the Big Dipper |
| 果柄 | guǒ bǐng | stem of a fruit |
| 授人以柄 | shòu rén yǐ bǐng | to hand someone the swordhilt (idiom); to give someone a hold on oneself |
English words written with 柄
柄 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Zhuangzi 1
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.