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把 — to hold; to grasp

Pinyin
bǎ · bà
Strokes
7
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
required

This character has more than one reading — bǎ, bà — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 把: 7 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. This character is on the HSK handwriting list, so the exam expects you to write it, not only recognise it.

把 — 7 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 把 in the HSK syllabus: 5

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 把bǎto hold; to graspHSK 3
  2. 把握bǎwòto grasp; to seize; to hold; assurance; certaintyHSK 5
  3. 把柄bǎbǐnghandle; information that can be used against sbHSK 7–9
  4. 把关bǎguānto guard a pass; to check on sthHSK 7–9
  5. 把手bǎshouhandle; grip; knobHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.