Read Edit View history 湃 pài sound of waves Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 氵 represents the meaning and 拜 represents the sound. Components 氵 氵 Meaning component shui, shuǐ water 氵 is a component form of 水. 拜 拜 Sound component bài pay respects Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangpʰroːds Sources Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang