Chinese symbol for “crawl”
爬
pá
to crawl; to climb; to get up or sit up
The closest CC-CEDICT match for crawl is 爬 (pá), defined as: to crawl; to climb; to get up or sit up.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “crawl”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 爬行 | pá xíng | to crawl; to creep |
| 匍匐 | pú fú | to crawl; to creep; to lie prostrate |
| 爬泳 | pá yǒng | (swimming) the crawl (front crawl stroke) |
| 扒 | pá | to rake up; to steal |
| 搲 | wǎ | to crawl; to climb |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 爬.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 爬行 | pá xíng | to crawl; to creep |
| 爬山 | pá shān | to go for a hike (esp. in the hills or mountains) |
| 攀爬 | pān pá | to climb |
| 爬虫 (爬蟲) | pá chóng | reptile; (Internet) web crawler |
| 爬升 | pá shēng | to rise; to ascend |
| 爬行动物 (爬行動物) | pá xíng dòng wù | reptile |
See also: Japanese symbol for “crawl”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.