HSK 3.0 Level 3 · Everyday Verbs

爬 pá “to climb” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 爬 means

  1. to climb
  2. to crawl
  3. to get up or sit up

How to say 爬

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale爬pá2nd tone, rising

爬 in a sentence

  1. 那座山很容易爬。

    Nà zuò shān hěn róngyì pá.

    That mountain is easy to climb.

    Sentence #874697 from Tatoeba

  2. 爬山是锻炼的好方法。

    Páshān shì duànliàn de hǎo fāngfǎ.

    Climbing mountains is a good way to exercise.

    Sentence #1517736 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 你从桌下爬出来吧！

    Nǐ cóng zhuō xià pá chūlai ba!

    Crawl out from under the table!

    Sentence #929634 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 爬 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 爬 (pá) with each of its parts in a different colour
爬páto crawl
  • 爪claw · zhǎoMeaning part
  • 巴to desire · bāSound part

爪 hints at the meaning (claw); 巴 (bā) hints at the sound. Compare it with pá.

How to write 爬

爬 8 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

爬 (pá) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 爬 (pá). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 爬

Words with 爬

爬山páshān · mountain climbing

More words: Everyday Verbs

受shòu · to receive跳tiào · to jump收到shōudào · to receive养yǎng · to raise (animals)练liàn · to practise不见bújiàn · to be missing刷shuā · to brush分开fēnkāi · to separate

FAQs

爬 (pá) means “to climb” or “to crawl”. It is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word.
Say it pá: pá with a 2nd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 爬 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pa with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 爬 from the suggestions. Typing pa into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
爬 is an HSK 3.0 Level 3 word in the official 2021 syllabus, and it is on our HSK 3.0 Band 4 word list. It is not on the older HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.