拍 (pāi)
to clap; to take (photo); to pat
How 拍 is written
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 扌 — hand
- Traditional
- 拍
- Simplified
- 拍 (unchanged)
Components
- 扌 hand
- 白 white
Common words using 拍
- 偷拍 tōupāi
- to take a picture of a person without permission or without their knowledge
- 實拍 shípāi
- candid photograph; genuine photograph (not set up or doctored)
- 抓拍 zhuāpāi
- to capture (an image); to snap (a photo)
- 拍出 pāichū
- to sell at auction; to reach a given price at auction
- 拍拖 pāituō
- to date sb
- 拍攝 pāishè
- to film; to shoot (a picture)
- 拍案 pāiàn
- lit. to slap the table (in amazement, praise, anger, resentment etc); fig. astonishing!, wonderful!, dreadful! etc
- 拍照 pāizhào
- to take a picture
- 乒乓球拍 pīngpāngqiúpāi
- ping-pong bat
- 合拍 hépāi
- in time with (i.e. same rhythm); to keep in step with; fig. to cooperate
- 打拍 dǎpāi
- to beat time; to mark rhythm on drum or clapper boards
- 拍子 pāizi
- racket (sports); bat; beat (music)
拍 in a sentence
我們來拍一張合照吧！
Wǒmen lái pāi yì zhāng hézhào ba!
“Let's take a group photo!”
How common is 拍?
拍 is the 1,165th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 91.5% of all running text.
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