Memory phrase (Mnemonic) for: 把

把

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Meaning

 take, grasp, hold, bundle

Pronunciation

 HA
toru, -wa

Explanation

 Left: hand 扌, right: 巴 var. of slump down 㔾 (image of a crouching person)

Mnemonic

The hand of the crouched person grasps for a bundle. (Or at the right the image of a doorknob 巴: The hand at the knob grasps it.)

Radicals

扌 hand(Several characters are used for hand: ナ, 扌, 手, ヨ)
巴 slumped person(As a variante of the sitting person 匕)
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Vocabulary

把握 はあく grasp, catch, understanding

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