排 (pái): arrange, row
排 (pái) is a Chinese character meaning “arrange, row.” Classified as HSK Level 4 (HSK 3.0 Standard, CLEC 2022), it is composed of 扌 (semantic) and 非 (phonetic). It ranks #682 in character frequency (SUBTLEX-CH corpus).
Etymologically derived, 排 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
- arrange, row
Etymology & Origin
Stroke Order
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Words & Compounds
HSK Vocabulary with 排
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning | HSK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 安排verb | ān pái | to arrange | 4 |
| 排练verb | pái liàn | to rehearse | 6 |
| 排除verb | pái chú | to eliminate | 6 |
| 排队verb | pái duì | to line up | 4 |
| 排名verb | pái míng | to rank (1st, 2nd etc) | 6 |
| 排列verb | pái liè | to arrange in order | 5 |
| 排球noun | pái qiú | volleyball | 4 |
| 排放verb | pái fàng | to arrange in order | 6 |
Common Compounds
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 牛排noun | niú pái | steak |
| 编排verb | biān pái | to arrange |
| 彩排verb | cǎi pái | dress rehearsal |
| 排斥verb | pái chì | to reject |
| 排骨noun | pái gǔ | pork chop |
| 后排noun | hòu pái | the back row (in a theater etc) |
| 前排noun | qián pái | front row |
| 猪排noun | zhū pái | pork ribs |
| 排行榜noun | pái háng bǎng | the charts (of best-sellers) |
| 排挤verb | pái jǐ | to crowd out |
| 排气verb | pái qì | to ventilate |
| 排演verb | pái yǎn | to rehearse (a performance) |
| 排箫noun | pái xiāo | panpipes |
| 排泄物noun | pái xiè wù | excreta |
| 排水verb | pái shuǐ | to drain |
排 appears in 105 compound words: 72 as the first character, 28 as the last, and 0 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 排 in natural Chinese text, ranked by NPMI (Normalized Pointwise Mutual Information) — a statistical measure of association strength.
Idioms & Chengyu (5)
to remove perils and solve disputes (idiom); to reconcile differences
Showing 4 of 5 idioms containing 排.
Example Sentences
请排队等待，前面还有五个人就轮到你了。
Qǐng páiduì děngdài, qiánmiàn hái yǒu wǔ gè rén jiù lún dào nǐ le.
Please wait in line; there are only five people ahead of you.
排山倒海 扑面而来!六百只宋代瓷碗在这叠成...
pái shān dǎo hǎi pū miàn ér lái ! liù bǎi zhī sòng dài cí wǎn zài zhè dié chéng . . .
Overwhelming and coming! Six hundred Song Dynasty porcelain bowls are stacked here...
线下门店排长队 线上订单早高峰 京东七鲜春节双线共...
xiàn xià mén diàn pái cháng duì xiàn shàng dìng dān zǎo gāo fēng jīng dōng qī xiān chūn jié shuāng xiàn gòng . . .
Long queues in offline stores, morning peak of online orders, JD Seven Fresh Spring Festival double line total...
2026祛斑产品什么好?十大祛斑产品排名深扒:祛斑..
2 0 2 6 祛 bān chǎn pǐn shén má hǎo ? shí dà 祛 bān chǎn pǐn pái míng shēn bā : 祛 bān . .
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...一季度订单迎爆发式增长,国内首创产品订单排..
. . . yī jì dù dìng shàn yíng bào fā shì zēng cháng , guó nèi shǒu chuàng chǎn pǐn dìng shàn pái . .
... The first quarter of orders to meet the explosive growth, the first domestic product order...
...总台春晚直播弹幕数达1.33亿,发送数量排名前..
. . . zǒng tái chūn wǎn zhí bō dàn mù shǔ dá . yì , fā sòng shǔ liáng pái míng qián . .
... The total number of spring gala live pop-ups reached 133 million, the number of sends ranked top...
能不能请您给我一公斤牛排？
Néng bù néng qǐng nín gěi wǒ yī gōngjīn niúpái?
Can you give me a kilo of steak?
您的牛排要几分熟？
Nín de niúpái yào jǐfēn shú?
How would you like your steak?
你明天有什么安排啦？
Nǐ míngtiān yǒu shénme ānpái lā?
What do you have planned tomorrow?
你下个周末有什么安排？
Nǐ xiàge zhōumò yǒu shénme ānpái?
What do you have planned for next weekend?
Character Family
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