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撥

bō

move; dispel; distribute; plectrum, play stringed instrument

Strokes
15
Radical
手
HSK
—
Tone
1

Simplified form: 拨

Stroke order

Our word list and example sentences are in simplified characters. Everything below is for 拨, the simplified form of 撥. We do not have a traditional-script corpus to draw the words from, so they are shown as they are written in simplified Chinese.

Example sentences

  • 我可以用这部电话拨打外线电话吗？

    Wǒ kě yǐ yòng zhè bù diàn huà bō dǎ wài xiàn diàn huà ma

    Can I make an outside call on this phone?

  • 你确定你拨对号码了吗？

    Nǐ què dìng nǐ bō duì hào mǎ le ma

    Are you sure you dialed the right number?

  • 好的。房间里长途电话可以直拨吗？

    Hǎo de fáng jiān lǐ cháng tú diàn huà kě yǐ zhí bō ma

    Good. Can you make long distance calls from the room?

  • 您能帮我拨号吗？电话机放得太高了。

    Nín néng bāng wǒ bō hào ma diàn huà jī fàng de tài gāo le

    Can you help me dial? The telephone is put too high.

Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), contributed by their community.

Words containing 拨

  • 拨打bō dǎ 1–3 to call; to dial
  • 挑拨tiǎo bō 3–1 to incite disharmony; to instigate
  • 拨bō 1to push aside with the hand, foot, a stick etc; to dial; to allocate; to set aside (money); to poke (the fire); to pluck (a string instrument); to turn round; classifier: group, batch
  • 拨款bō kuǎn 1–3 to allocate funds; appropriation
  • 拨通bō tōng 1–1 to get through to sb on the phone