zhǎo claw; a hand reaching down from above

Forms

• 爫 top — The flattened form used on top of a character, as in 妥 and 受.
• 爪 free — The standalone form of the same component, written 爪 when it is not squeezed onto the top.

Characters that use it as a component

妥受淫爱舀觅采

Characters filed under it as a radical

Kangxi radical no.87 · 爪 · 4strokes — The 214 Kangxi radicals

Filed under it in a dictionary. That is a lookup convention — it does not mean it is the only part the character is built from.

争爪爬爱