拿
Meaning
- to hold
- to seize
- to catch
Example sentence
拿本书读！
Take a book and read it.
The character 拿
拿 is 合, joining, over 手, a hand: the hand closing on something. To hold or take — 拿着, 拿出来, 拿到 — and it is the plain verb where 带 is to bring along and 提 is to carry by a handle.