扯
to pull; to tear; (of cloth, thread etc) to buy; to chat; to gossip; (coll.) (Tw) ridiculous; hokey
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How 扯 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
扌 (semantic, “hand”) + 止 (phonetic, zhǐ)
How to remember it
yank · Heisig RSH #1856
fingers + footprint
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 止
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 止 (zhǐ) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 止 sound component | zhǐ | to stop, to halt; to detain; to desist |
| 此 | cǐ | this, these; in this case, then |
| 址 | zhǐ | location, site; the foundation of a house |
| 耻 | chǐ | shame, humiliation; ashamed |
| 趾 | zhǐ | toe; tracks, footprints |
| 芷 | zhǐ | an angelica herb |
| 祉 | zhǐ | blessings, happiness, good luck |
Words containing 扯
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 步子太大，容易扯着蛋 | bù zi tài dà , róng yì chě zhe dàn | if you take too big a stride, you could easily rip your balls (catchphrase) (line spoken b… |
| 东拉西扯 | dōng lā xī chě | to talk about this and that (idiom); to ramble incoherently |
| 生拉活扯 | shēng lā huó chě | see 生拉硬拽[sheng1 la1 ying4 zhuai4] |
| 拉扯大 | lā che dà | (coll.) to bring up; to rear; to raise |
| 扯鸡巴蛋 | chě jī ba dàn | to talk shit; to drivel; bullshit |
| 扯家常 | chě jiā cháng | to engage in small talk; to chit chat |
| 白扯蛋 | bái chě dàn | variant of 白扯淡[bai2 che3 dan4] |
| 扯皮条 | chě pí tiáo | see 拉皮條|拉皮条[la1 pi2 tiao2] |
| 狗扯羊皮 | gǒu chě yáng pí | to fuss around; to buzz about uselessly; to wag one's tongue |
| 互相扯皮 | hù xiāng chě pí | to pass the buck; to shirk responsibility |
| 拉扯 | lā che | to drag; to pull; to raise a child (through difficulties); to help; to support; to drag in… |
| 拉拉扯扯 | lā lā chě chě | to tug at; to pull at sb aggressively; to take sb's hand or arm in a too familiar way; (de… |
| 牵扯不清 | qiān chě bù qīng | unclear; ambiguous; having an unclear relationship with |
| 扯平 | chě píng | to make even; to balance; (fig.) to be even; to call it quits |
| 扯皮 | chě pí | to wrangle; wrangling |
| 扯后腿 | chě hòu tuǐ | to be a drag or hindrance on sb |
| 胡扯八溜 | hú chě bā liū | to talk nonsense |
| 扯直 | chě zhí | to straighten (by pulling or stretching); to be even (neither side losing out) |
| 白扯淡 | bái chě dàn | (coll.) to talk rubbish |
| 扯远 | chě yuǎn | to digress; to get sidetracked; to go off on a tangent |