拨 (撥)

  1. verb to move; to shake
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: For example, 拨云雾见青天 'to push away the clouds and mist and see the blue sky' (Guoyu '撥' v 5; Kroll 2015 '撥' 3, p. 26; Suyu, p. 53; Unihan '撥')
  2. verb to dispel; to discard
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '撥' 2, p. 26; Unihan '撥')
  3. verb to distribute; to scatter
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '撥' 1, p. 26; Unihan '撥')
  4. verb to reject
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '撥' 2a, p. 26)
  5. onomatopoeia plucking sound
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '撥' 3b, p. 26)
  6. verb to sort; to arrange
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '撥' 4, p. 26)
  7. verb to break open; to push away
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '撥' v 1; Kroll 2015 '撥' 5, p. 26)
  8. adjective bent
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Kroll 2015 '撥' 5a, p. 26)
  9. verb to turn around
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '撥' v 3)
  10. noun group; burst
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '撥' n 2)
  11. noun a plectrum
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: To play a stringed instrument (Guoyu '撥' n 1; Kroll 2015 '撥' 3a, p. 26; Unihan '撥')

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拨云雾见青天拨草参玄拨号连接拨草瞻风

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