扯

chě

to pull · to tear

Radical: 扌 Strokes: 7

Structure: Left narrow, right wideFrequency: Common

Same radical

打拉指报托折推接投护提排

Same radical

打拉指报托折推接投护提排才扬执

Stroke Order · 7 strokes (click to expand)

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Character Decomposition

扯=扌+止

Etymology

hand

Meanings

to pull

to tear

(of cloth, thread etc) to buy

to chat

to gossip

(coll.) (Tw) ridiculous

hokey

chě

to pull

to tear

chě

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Words with 扯 107 total

to tell a lie扯谎chě huǎng diabolo · Chinese yo-yo扯铃chě líng to talk nonsense (dialect)扯谈chě tán to straighten (by pulling or stretching) · to be even (neither side losing out)扯直chě zhí to tear apart撕扯sī chě to involve; to implicate · to be interrelated牵扯qiān chě

Idioms with 扯 24 total

to talk about this and that (idiom); to ramble incoherently东拉西扯dōng lā xī chě