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Chinese Character/Word:

Definition(s) for:

Hanzi Pinyin Definition(s)
pāi - to pat
- to clap
- to slap
- to swat
- to take (a photo)
- to shoot (a film)
- racket (sports)
- beat (music)

List Ranking:

Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.

HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
5 3 475 660 294

Character Breakdown:

Decomposition:

Radical:

Type:

Pictophonetic

Phonetic:

Semantic:

Hint:

Hand

Other Words Containing

Sorted by the 'SUBTLEX-CH' rank because that seems like the most reliable. Words without a SUBTLEX-CH rank are ignored for being too rare.

Word HSK 2 Level (2012) HSK 3 Band (2022) SUBTLEX-CH BeijingUni Global BeijingUni Weibo
5 3 475 660 294
拍摄 - 5 1,757 1,640 2,169
拍照 - 4 2,385 5,181 2,666
拍卖 - 7 5,258 3,623 8,501
开拍 - - 5,408 16,569 19,702
拍卖会 - - 8,057 15,091 25,569
偷拍 - - 10,999 12,639 6,014
合拍 - - 12,797 24,177 19,783
节拍 - - 13,122 28,132 23,834
拍马屁 - - 13,559 40,664 22,798
拍子 - - 14,427 46,505 33,538
拍手 - - 14,814 26,322 20,696
拍打 - - 15,071 19,924 13,338
拍戏 - 9 18,603 10,695 10,179
球拍 - 6 21,162 30,690 27,094
抓拍 - - 22,170 - -
打拍子 - - 28,855 - 68,533
拍板 - 9 31,034 26,653 32,102
一拍即合 - - 39,172 34,232 33,866
苍蝇拍 - - 39,979 - -
拍击 - - 49,032 67,712 85,906
节拍器 - - 49,225 - -
乒乓球拍 - - 54,112 - -
拍案叫绝 - - 54,806 62,621 50,048
拍马 - - 54,984 45,205 41,982
拍卖商 - - 57,684 - -
溜须拍马 - - 65,107 80,069 47,497
拍案而起 - - 85,275 57,471 43,534