Keyword
to hold
- to bring
- to grasp
- to take
- Frequency
- #570
- Strokes
- 10
Readings
ná100%
Mnemonic
手 (hand) gives the meaning and 合 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in characters
Used in vocabulary
拿
to hold; to seize; to catch; to apprehend; to take; (used in the same way as 把 (bǎ): to mark the following noun as a direct object)
加拿大
Canada
拿到
to get; to obtain
拿出
to take out; to put out; to provide; to put forward (a proposal); to come up with (evidence)
拿来
to bring; to fetch; to get
拿下
to arrest; to capture; to seize; to win (a set, a game etc)
拿走
to take away
巴拿马
Panama
拿破仑
Napoleon (name); Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
推拿
tui na (form of Chinese manual therapy)
捉拿
to arrest; to catch a criminal
桑拿
(loanword) sauna
拿手
expert in; good at
拿捏
(lit. and fig.) to grasp; to control; (dialect) affecting shyness; coy; (dialect) to deliberately create difficulties; to threaten
蒙大拿
Montana, US state
缉拿
to arrest; to seize
巴拿马运河
Panama Canal
巴拿马城
Panama City
拿骚
Nassau, capital of The Bahamas
波拿巴
Bonaparte (name); Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
拿手好戏
the role an actor plays best (idiom); (fig.) one's specialty; one's forte
十拿九稳
(idiom) to be a cinch; in the bag; (idiom) (of a person) confident of success
拿主意
to make a decision; to make up one's mind
墨西拿
Messina, Sicilian city