拍
pāi HSK3

clap

拍 pāi
to shoot verb
to take a photo; to shoot film or a movie

他似乎不介意被拍到。

tā sì​hū bù jiè​yì bèi pāi dào.

He doesn't seem to mind being photographed.

这张照片是在博物馆拍的。

zhè zhāng zhào​piàn shì zài bó​wù​guǎn pāi de.

This photo was taken in the museum.

to pat verb
to pat; to clap; to slap; to swat with the palm of the hand or a flat object

今晚我没有拍他的头。

jīn​wǎn wǒ méi​yǒu pāi tā de tóu.

I didn't pat his head tonight.

她拍了拍我的背，安慰我。

tā pāi le pāi wǒ​de bèi, ān​wèi wǒ.

She patted my back to comfort me.

to auction noun
(bound form) to auction; short for 拍卖 pāi​mài
racket noun
(bound form) a racket or paddle used in sports; a swatter
beat adjectivenoun
a beat or time in music; (measure word) a beat
to send
to send a telegram or dispatch a message
to flatter
to fawn on; to flatter or butter someone up; short for 拍马屁 pāi​mǎ​pì
surname
a Chinese surname
to defeat
(slang) to defeat; to beat; to knock out

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Frequency
Character
Written text
1,167th most common 121.4 per million
Movie subtitles
568th most common 247.2 per million appears in 47% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
210.9 per million appears in 37% of films
Written text
188.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 5
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
8
Unicode
U+62CD

Sources
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)