拨 (bō) means Dial (move to - group - batch). Below are 6 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
学校 拨 了一笔钱修操场。
Xuéxiào bō le yì bǐ qián xiū cāochǎng.
The school allocated a sum of money to repair the sports ground.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 拨
他 拨 了三次电话都没人接。
Tā bō le sān cì diànhuà dōu méi rén jiē.
He dialled three times and nobody picked up.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 拨
他轻轻 拨 动了琴弦。
Tā qīngqīng bōdòng le qín xián.
He gently plucked the strings.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 弦
这项工程由中央财政 拨 款。
Zhè xiàng gōngchéng yóu zhōngyāng cáizhèng bōkuǎn.
This project is funded from the central budget.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 财政
别听他挑 拨 ，我们自己谈。
Bié tīng tā tiǎobō, wǒmen zìjǐ tán.
Don't listen to his mischief-making; let's talk it out ourselves.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 挑拨
有人在背后挑 拨 他们的关系。
Yǒu rén zài bèihòu tiǎobō tāmen de guānxì.
Someone was stirring up trouble between them behind their backs.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 挑拨
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Words that contain 拨
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Questions about 拨
How is 拨 used in a sentence?
This page shows 6 sentences using 拨 (bō, "Dial (move to - group - batch)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 拨 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 拨 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 拨 an HSK word?
Yes — 拨 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 拨?
The dictionary page for 拨 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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