牌
pái HSK3

signboard

牌 pái
card noun
mahjong tile, domino, or playing card

我们在家里打牌。

wǒ​men zài jiā lǐ dǎ pái.

We are playing cards at home.

brand noun
brand or trademark

这个牌子的手机很流行。

zhè gè pái zi de shǒu​jī hěn liú​xíng.

This brand of mobile phone is very popular.

signboard noun
signboard, plaque, plate, or tablet

门口挂着一个木牌。

mén​kǒu guà zhe yī gè mù pái.

A wooden sign hangs by the door.

verse pattern noun
fixed pattern for lyrics or set melody in classical poetry or music

“沁园春”是一个著名的词牌。

“ Qìn​yuán​chūn” shì yī gè zhù​míng de cí pái.

'Qin Yuan Chun' is a famous tune name for Ci poetry.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,261st most common 102.1 per million
Movie subtitles
902nd most common 125.4 per million appears in 39% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
62.3 per million appears in 15% of films
Written text
90.2 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 4
HSK 3.0
Level 3
Strokes
12
Unicode
U+724C

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