拨 (撥) bō

1. bō 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. bō verb to dispel; to discard
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '撥' 2, p. 26; Unihan '撥')
3. bō verb to distribute; to scatter
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '撥' 1, p. 26; Unihan '撥')
4. bō verb to reject
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '撥' 2a, p. 26)
5. bō onomatopoeia plucking sound
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '撥' 3b, p. 26)
6. bō verb to sort; to arrange
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '撥' 4, p. 26)
7. bō 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. bō adjective bent
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Kroll 2015 '撥' 5a, p. 26)
9. bō verb to turn around
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '撥' v 3)
10. bō noun group; burst
    Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
    Notes: (Guoyu '撥' n 2)
11. bō 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')

Contained in

• 弹拨乐(彈撥樂) plucked string music
• 拨子(撥子) plectrum
• 划拨(劃撥) to assign; to allocate; to transfer (money to an account)
• 拨火棍(撥火棍) poker
• 土拨鼠(土撥鼠) groundhog
• 弹拨(彈撥) to pluck (a string)
• 支拨(支撥) to pay; to expend [money]
• 拨转(撥轉) to turn; to turn around; to transfer (funds etc)
• 拨正(撥正) to set right; to correct
• 拨付(撥付) appropriate sum of money
• 拨号盘(撥號盤) telephone dial
• 毕拨(畢撥) piper; pepper plants and pepper vines
• 四两拨千斤(四兩撥千斤) four ounces can move a thousand catties; to achieve much with little effort
• 点拨(點撥) to give instructions; to give advice
• 拨动(撥動) to stir; to prod; to poke; to move sideways; to strum (on a guitar etc)
• 拨出(撥出) to pull out; to allocate (funds); to dial
• 拨款(撥款) allocate funds; to appropriate funds
• 拨号音(撥號音) dial tone
• 弹拨乐器(彈撥樂器) plucked string instrument
• 挑拨(挑撥) to foment
• 拨开(撥開) to push aside; to part; to brush away
• 拨用(撥用) appropriation
• 拨号(撥號) to dial a telephone number
• 拨接(撥接) dial-up (Internet connection)
• 撩拨(撩撥) to provoke; to tease
• 拨刺(撥刺) splash (of a fish)
• 拨乱反正(撥亂反正) bring order out of chaos; set to rights things which have been thrown into disorder
• 拨弦乐器(撥弦樂器) plucked string or stringed instrument; plucked instrument
• 拨弄(撥弄) to move to and fro (with hand, foot, stick etc); to fiddle with; to stir up
• 拨打(撥打) to call; to dial
• 挑拨是非(挑撥是非) to incite a quarrel; to sow discord between people; to tell tales; to make mischief
• 拨空(撥空) to make time
• 遣拨(遣撥) to dispatch
• 拨奏(撥奏) pizzicato
• 挑灯拨火(挑燈撥火) to sow discord; to provoke
• 调拨(調撥) to sow discord
• 拨草寻蛇(撥草尋蛇) making a path through the grass in search of a snake; to go out of your way to provoke something dangerous
• 拨子弹(撥子彈) plectrum
• 挑拨离间(挑撥離間) to sow dissension; to drive a wedge between
• 拨云见日(撥雲見日) to dispel the clouds and see the sun; to restore justice
• 枨拨(棖撥) to push open; to push aside with a hand
• 一拨儿(一撥兒) group of people
• 拨冗(撥冗) to find time to do something in the midst of pressing affairs
• 拨浪鼓(撥浪鼓) a drum-shaped rattle; rattle-drum

Also contained in

拨云雾见青天 、 拨草参玄 、 拨号连接 、 拨草瞻风

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• 卷九十五　志第四十四: 　食貨三 Volume 95 Treatises 48: Finance and Economics 3 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 160
• 第九回 Chapter 9 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 21
• 第十回 Chapter 10 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 21
• 卷一百八十八 志第一百四十一 兵二 Volume 188 Treatises 141: Military 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 20
• 卷九十四　志第四十三: 　食貨二 Volume 94 Treatises 47: Finance and Economics 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 15
• 第八十回 Chapter 80 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 11
• 第三十七回 Chapter 37 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 11
• 卷一百　　志第四十八:　兵三 Volume 100 Treatises 53: Military 3 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 11
• 卷六十九 志第四十五 選舉一 Volume 69 Treatises 45: Selection of Officials 1 History of Ming 明史 — count: 10
• 第一百十一回 Chapter 111 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 10

Collocations

• 拨乱 (撥亂) 內有撥亂之志 — The Book of Songs 詩經, 大雅‧蕩之什‧雲漢 Greater odes of the kingdom - Decade Of Dang - Yun Han — count: 65
• 普拨 (普撥) 更立莫槐弟普撥為大人 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷1 序紀 Volume 1: Preface to Annals — count: 8
• 拨乱世 (撥亂世) 撥亂世 — Gongyang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals 春秋公羊傳, 哀公 Lord Ai — count: 6
• 拨烦 (撥煩) 上知勝非撥煩吏 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷七十二 王貢兩龔鮑傳 Volume 72: Wang, Gong, two Gongs and Bao — count: 6
• 期拨 (期撥) 古先哲王應期撥亂者 — Book of Jin 晉書, 卷一百二十九 載記第二十九 沮渠蒙遜 Volume 129 Records 29: Juqu Mengxun — count: 4
• 神武拨 (神武撥) 神武撥亂 — Records of the Three Kingdoms 三國志, 卷二十一 魏書二十一 王衛二劉傅傳 Volume 21: Book of Wei 21 - Biographies of Wang, Wei, and the two Lius — count: 4
• 拨传 (撥傳) 北齊書卷二七万俟普撥傳補 — Book of Wei 魏書, 卷11 廢出三帝紀 前廢帝廣陵王 Volume 11 Annals: Three Emperors that Fled - Emperor Qianfei, Prince of Guangling (also Emperor Houfei and Emperor Xiaowu) — count: 3
• 扶拨 (扶撥) 夫繩扶撥以為正 — Guanzi 管子, 宙合第十一 Chapter 11: Zhou He — count: 3
• 拨剌 (撥剌) 撥剌難匡 — New Discussions 新語, 卷下　資質第七　至德第八　懷慮第九　本行第十　明誡第十一　思務第十二　Scroll 2 — count: 3
• 设拨 (設撥) 哀公欲設撥 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《檀弓下》 Tan Gong II — count: 3