"To pluck" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 bō to 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
 zhāi to take / to borrow / to pick (flowers, fruit etc) / to pluck / to select / to remove / to take off (glasses, hat etc)
 cǎi zhāi to pluck / to pick
 bá diào to pluck / to pull off / to pull out / to unplug
 zhāi qǔ to pluck / to take
 bá máo to pull out hair / to pluck / epilation
 tán to pluck (a string) / to play (a string instrument) / to spring or leap / to shoot (e.g. with a catapult) / (of cotton) to fluff or tease / to flick / to flip / to accuse / to impeach / elastic (of materials)
 tán bō to pluck (a string)
 bá qǔ to pick out / to select and recruit / to pluck / to pull
 xián to pull out (esp. hair or feathers) / to pick / to pluck / fig. to extract (lines from a text)
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