拍
pāi HSK3

clap

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

我们在公园拍了很多照片。

wǒ​men zài gōng​yuán pāi le hěn​duō zhào​piàn.

We took a lot of photos in the park.

strike verb
to pat, clap, slap, or swat with the palm or an object

他轻轻拍了拍我的肩膀。

tā qīng​qīng pāi le pāi wǒ de jiān​bǎng.

He tapped me lightly on the shoulder.

beat measure word
the rhythmic unit or tempo in music

这首圆舞曲每小节有三拍。

zhè shǒu yuán​wǔ​qǔ měi xiǎo​jié yǒu sān pāi.

This waltz has three beats per measure.

racket verb
a bat or racket used in sports like tennis or badminton

这把羽毛球拍很轻便。

zhè bǎ yǔ​máo​qiú pāi hěn qīng​biàn.

This badminton racket is very lightweight.

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
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)