拍 (pāi): to pat, to clap, to slap
拍 (pāi) is a Chinese character meaning “to pat.” Classified as HSK Level 3 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 扌 (semantic) and 白 (phonetic). It ranks #1165 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 拍 hand. Its radical form 扌 (hand) appears in many related characters such as 手 (shǒu, hand), 打 (dǎ, hit, make), 找 (zhǎo, to look for).
Definitions
- to pat
- to clap
- to slap
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 拍
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 拍卖 | pāi mài | to auction |
| 开拍 | kāi pāi | to begin shooting (a movie, a scene of a movie etc) |
| 拍卖会 | pāi mài huì | auction |
| 偷拍 | tōu pāi | to photograph or film sb without their knowledge or consent |
| 合拍 | hé pāi | in time with (i.e. same rhythm) |
| 节拍 | jié pāi | beat (music) |
| 拍马屁 | pāi mǎ pì | to flatter |
| 拍子 | pāi zi | beat (music) |
| 拍手 | pāi shǒu | to clap one's hands |
| 拍打 | pāi da | to pat |
| 拍戏 | pāi xì | to shoot a movie |
| 球拍 | qiú pāi | (tennis, badminton etc) racket |
| 抓拍 | zhuā pāi | to capture (an image) |
| 打拍子 | dǎ pāi zi | to beat time |
| 拍板 | pāi bǎn | wooden clappers (percussion instrument) |
拍 appears in 84 compound words: 44 as the first character, 33 as the last, and 23 in a middle position. Compound statistics computed from SUBTLEX-CH and HSK 3.0 vocabulary data.
Strongest Collocations
Characters that most frequently co-occur with 拍 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (7)
Example Sentences
他拍起袖子，开始认真地打扫房间。
tā pāi qǐ xiù zǐ , kāi shǐ rèn zhēn dì dǎ sǎo fáng jiān .
He rolled up his sleeves and began cleaning the room thoroughly.
拍板育儿家长减工时补助 蒋万安:不排除动用...
pāi bǎn yù ér jiā cháng jiǎn gōng shí bǔ zhù 蒋 wàn ān : bù pái chú dòng yòng . . .
Decision to reduce working hours subsidy for parenting Jiang Wan'an: It is not ruled out to use...
潜入国小偷拍女童如厕判7年2月 恶男二审刑度大减改判...
qián rù guó xiǎo tōu pāi nǚ tóng rú cè pàn 7 nián 2 yuè è nán èr shěn xíng dù dà jiǎn gǎi pàn . . .
Sneaking into a primary school to secretly photograph a girl going to the toilet was sentenced to 7 years and 2 months, and the sentence of the evil man in the second instance was greatly reduced and the sentence was changed...
日扭蛋店社长偷拍女客裙底 手机藏2千部影片辩“压力大忍不...
rì niǔ dàn diàn shè cháng tōu pāi nǚ kè qún de shǒu jī zàng 2 qiān bù yǐng piàn biàn yā lì dà rěn bù . . .
The president of the Japanese gachapon shop secretly filmed the female customer's upskirt and hid 2,000 videos on his mobile phone to defend "the pressure is so great that I can't bear it...
房子被拍卖还被追税?国税局曝“房地合一”致命陷阱...
fáng zǐ bèi pāi mài hái bèi zhuī shuì ? guó shuì jú pù fáng dì gě yī zhì mìng xiàn jǐng . . .
The house was auctioned and taxed? The IRS exposed the fatal trap of "integration of real estate and land"...
...着数套餐 脆辣鸡腿饱餐首次加入 黄泽林首拍“老麦”广告重新演绎经典金句
. . . zhe shǔ tào cān cuì là jī tuǐ bǎo cān shǒu cì jiā rù huáng zé lín shǒu pāi lǎo mài guǎng gào chóng xīn yǎn yì jīng diǎn jīn jù
... The number of set meals crispy and spicy chicken legs was added for the first time Huang Zelin's first shot of the "Lao Mai" advertisement to reinterpret the classic golden sentences
汤姆拍了不只一张照，是吗？
Tāngmǔ pāi le bù zhǐ yī zhāng zhào, shì ma?
Tom took more than one picture, didn't he?
我的业余爱好是拍野花的照片。
Wǒ de yèyú àihào shì pāi yěhuā de zhàopiàn.
My hobby is taking pictures of wild flowers.
给我看看你在巴黎拍的照片吧。
Gěi wǒ kànkan nǐ zài Bālí pāi de zhàopiàn ba.
Show me the photos you took in Paris.
无人领取的物品被拍卖了。
Wúrén lǐngqǔ de wùpǐn bèi pāimài le.
The unclaimed items were auctioned off.
Character Family
Homophones — Characters pronounced pāi
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