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拨
撥
bō
v. to move or adjust (with hand, foot or a stick); to pluck (strings)
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Other meanings
[bō]v. to dial (a telephone number)
[bō]v./m. to allocate; group,
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Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Simplified stroke orders are based on the 'Standard of National Commonly-used Mandarin Chinese Characters (现代汉语通用字笔顺规范)', issued by the China National Language and Character Working Committee (国家语言文字工作委员会) on April 7th 1997. Traditional stroke orders are based on information issued by the Taiwan Ministry of Education.
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拨开
撥開
bō kāi
v. move aside
撩拨
撩撥
liáo bō
v. tease, banter, provoke
拨弄
撥弄
bō nòng
v. move to and fro (with hand, foot, stick, etc.), fiddle with, stir up
琴拨
琴撥
qín bō
n. plectrum
红掌拨清波
紅掌撥清波
hóng zhǎng bō qīng bō
phr. You swim through clear waves with your red webbed feet (verse of a poem in Tang Dynasty)