拃
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Meaning: span
💡 Imagine your hand spanning a 'zha' (扎) like a stretchy rubber band.
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Character Story & Explanation
Detective's note: The character 拃 originally depicted a hand measuring a span. Its radical 扌 (hand) and phonetic 乍 suggest the action of stretching fingers to measure. In ancient China, 拃 was a common unit of length—the distance from thumb tip to middle fingertip. Today it remains in daily use for rough measurement.
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