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Meaning of 爬

Pinyin pá

Radical

爪

Strokes

Definition

crawl / climb

Usage

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爬 [pá] 〈动〉 1. 手和脚一齐着地走路，虫类行走：to walk with hands and feet on the ground, as insects do. 例: ～行 (crawl); ～虫 (reptiles); ～泳 (to swim by crawling). 2. 攀登：to climb. 例: ～高 (to climb high); ～升 (to ascend); ～山 (to climb a mountain); 往上～ (a sarcastic allusion to the pursuit of fame). 3. 搔：to scratch. 例: ～痒 (to scratch an itch); ～搔 (to scratch lightly). 【本义】: 搔，爬梳 (the original meaning: scratch, to comb). 【造字法】: 形声。从爪，巴声 (morphological structure: a phono-semantic compound, composed of the radical "爪" meaning claw, and the sound component "巴"). 1. 同本义 ([En.] scratch). 2. 爬行，匍匐：躯体贴地缓慢向前行 ([En.] crawl; creep). 3. 攀登 ([En.] climb; clamber; scramble). 4. 俯伏 ([En.] lie prostrate). 5. 整治 ([En.] renovate). 6. 疏导; 发掘 ([En.] dredge). 引例: 1. 《广韵》：爬，搔也 (Guangyun: to scratch). 2. 韩愈等《雨中寄孟刑部几道联句》：怯烦类决痈，惬兴剧爬疥。 3. 白居易《自咏老身示诸家属》：支分闲事了，爬背向阳眠。例: - 爬挲 (to scratch, to stroke); - 爬栉 (to comb, to tidy up); - 爬耳搔腮 (to act in a flustered manner); - 爬拉 (to frequently pull food into the mouth). 引例: 1. 韩愈《月蚀诗效玉川子作》。例: - 来回爬动 (to crawl back and forth); - 缓慢地爬动 (to crawl slowly); - 屎尿失控，来不及上厕所 (unable to hold in, unable to reach the toilet in time; close to dying); - 趴在地上，无法走动 (to lie on the ground, unable to move). 引例: 1. 他们为了出风头，向上爬，却把我们踩在脚底下 (To show off, they climb up, but step on us!). 例: - 爬树 (to climb a tree); - 爬上高枝 (to associate with powerful figures); - 爬得越高，跌得越惨 (the higher you climb, the harder you fall). 例: - 爬蛋 (dialect. to give birth); - 爬窝 (dialect. to lie down and not get up); - 趴下 (to lie down). 例: - 爬栉 (to clean and organize); - 爬剔 (to pick and choose). 引例: - 发掘搜罗 (to dredge and collect); - 盗墓贼 (grave robbers).

爬坡度 pá pō dù

gradient

摸爬滚打 mō pá gǔn dǎ

to go through challenging experiences / to become seasoned (in one's profession etc)

攀爬 pān pá

to climb

爬行 pá xíng

to crawl / to creep

连滚带爬 lián gǔn dài pá

rolling and crawling / trying frantically to escape (idiom)

爬山 pá shān

to climb a mountain / to mountaineer / hiking / mountaineering

上爬 shàng pá

swash / run-up uprush / mount / climb up

爬行动物 pá xíng dòng wù

reptile

爬虫 pá chóng

reptile (old or common word for 爬行動物|爬行动物)

爬升 pá shēng

to rise / to ascend / to climb (airplane etc) / to go up (sales figures etc) / to gain promotion

爬树 pá shù

climb tree

爬山虎 pá shān hǔ

Boston ivy or Japanese creeper (Parthenocissus tricuspidata)

爬高 pá gāo

climb / altitude / gain / mount / ascent

小爬虫 xiǎo pá chóng

Little crawler

爬墙虎 pá qiáng hǔ

grape ivy / Boston ivy / parthenocissus tricuspidata

爬格子 pá gé zi

(oral) to write (esp. for a living) / to spell out laboriously on squared paper

爬犁 pá lí

sledge

爬山越岭 pá shān yuè lǐng

scramble up the hills / climb mountain heights and negotiate mountain ranges / over hills and crests

爬竿 pá gān

pole-climbing (as gymnastics or circus act) / climbing pole