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The Chinese word for handle is
门把手

mén bǎ shǒu



handle

Chinese Definition


handle
     1. 把手
     2. 可乘之机
     3. 头衔
     4. 睹注金额
     5.
     6. 支使
     7. 讨论
     8. 处理经营
     9. 操作
     10. 处理
     11.
     12. 把柄
     13. 把子
     14. 辫子
     15.
     16. 动手
     17. 对待
Components
     1. Simplified form of 門
     1. to hold; to grasp; to take
           把握 - to grasp; to control; to master
           媽媽ma 手把手 教 我 寫字。 (Māma shǒubǎshǒu jiào wǒ xiězì.) - My mom held my hand and taught me to write.
     2. to control; to dominate
           把控 (bǎkòng) - to control
     3. to guard; to have control over
           把守 (bǎshǒu) - to guard; to defend
           把門 - to guard a door or gate
     4. (colloquial) to be close; to be near
     5. to hold a baby while it relieves itself
           把尿 (bǎniào) - to hold a baby while it urinates
     6. (TCM) to feel (for the pulse)
           我 替 施主 把 把脈。 (Wǒ tì shīzhǔ bǎ bǎmài.) - Let me feel the pulse for you.
     7. A light verb or preposition placed before the object of a sentence to allow it to be placed before the verb, giving greater flexibility in complex sentence construction.
           他 把 刀 放 在 桌子zi 上。 (Tā bǎ dāo fàng zài zhuōzi shàng.) - He put the knife on the table.
     8. Used before a “subject + verb + complement” structure; to cause to; to make
           真的 把 我 氣死 了! (Zhēnde bǎ wǒ qìsǐ le!) - It really made me so mad!
     9. bundle; bunch
           火把 (huǒbǎ) - torch (stick with a flame on one end)
     10. handle; knob; grip (a part of an object which is held in the hand)
           車把 (chēbǎ) - handlebar (of a bicycle)
           刀把bà (dāobà) - knife handle; hilt
     11. stem (of a flower, leaf, fruit, etc.)
           葉把bà兒r (yèbàr) - stem of a leaf
           三 把 刀 (sān bǎ dāo) - three knives
           四 把 鉸gaau3剪 - four pairs of scissors
           一 把 刀囝 (siŏh bā dŏ̤-giāng, ref=(RQ:Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects, 1677) - a pocketknife, MD)
           兩 把 掃把 (liǎng bǎ sǎobǎ) - two brooms
           一 把 米 (yī bǎ mǐ) - a handful of rice
           一 把 韭菜 (yī bǎ jiǔcài) - a bunch of garlic chives
           點 一 把 火 - to light a fire
           加 把 勁兒r! (Jiā bǎ jìnr!) - Make an extra effort!
           一 把 年紀
           幫 你 一 把 (bāng nǐ yī bǎ) - to give you a helping hand
           過癮\過 把 過癮\癮 - to satisfy a craving
           打 把 麻將 - to play mahjong
           玩 兩 把 牌 - to play card games
           打 幾 把 遊戲 - to play video games
           汏浴\汏 把 汏浴\浴 (3da+2po+5hhioq, ref=(RQ:Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects, 1675) - to bathe, SH)
     12. (Xiamen, &, Quanzhou Hokkien)
           一 把 跤踏車 (chi̍t pé kha-ta̍h-chhia) - a bicycle, MN, ref=(RQ:Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects, 1677)
     13. Placed after numerals or classifiers to express uncertainty; approximately
           個 把 月 - approximately a month
           十 把 日 (sĕk bā nĭk, ref=(RQ:Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects, 1677) - approximately ten days, MD)
           隻 把 人 (ciă bǎ nêng, ref=(RQ:Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects, 1676) - several people, MB)
     14. (archaic or dialectal) to give
           把 壓歲錢 (ba3 'ngat6 sui4 qien2) - to give money (to children) during the Chinese New Year, G
           把 本 書 你 (ba3 ben3 xy1 nyi3, ref=(RQ:Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects, 1675) - to give you a book, X)
           把 我 一 本 書 - to give me a book, M-YZ, ref=(RQ:Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects, 1672)
     15. =====Usage notes=====
     16. (zh-wp, zh:把字句, en:bǎ construction)
     1. hand
     2. expert; master
           高手 - master
     3. -ist; -er
           歌手 - singer
     4. convenient; handy; portable
           手機 - mobile phone
           手冊 - handbook
     5. handwritten
     6. (Min Nan) luck in gambling
     7. (Mainland China Hokkien)
     8. (Taiwanese Hokkien) hidden part (general)
     9. (finance)
     10. usage. In many varieties of Chinese south of the Yangtze River, 手 refers to the arm and hand collectively.



Translations for and their definitions

把手
     1. n. handle; grip; knob
     2. v. (literary) to hold hands


手柄
     1. n. handle; hand lever
     2. n. game controller


把柄
     1. n. (literally) handle (the part of a utensil that is easy to hold by hand)
     2. n. (figuratively) information that yields a bargaining advantage to the other party in a lawsuit or argument; information that can be used against someone


化名
     1. v. to use an alias
     2. n. assumed name; alias; pseudonym


句柄
     1. n. (computer programming) handle


昵称
     1. Simplified form of 暱稱


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mén bǎ shǒu

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