拍 pāi

1. pāi verb to clap; to pat; to beat; to hit; to slap
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '拍'; Guoyu '拍' v 1; Unihan '拍'; XHZD '拍' 1, p. 547)
2. pāi verb to take a photograph
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '拍'; Guoyu '拍' v 2; XHZD '拍' 4, p. 547)
3. pāi noun a bat; a racket
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '拍'; Guoyu '拍' n 1; XHZD '拍' 2, p. 547)
4. pāi verb to flatter; to fawn on
   Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
   Notes: (Guoyu '拍' v 4; XHZD '拍' 3, p. 547)
5. pāi verb to send; to dispatch
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '拍' v 3; XHZD '拍' 5, p. 547)
6. pāi noun rhythm
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (CC-CEDICT '拍'; Guoyu '拍' n 2; Unihan '拍')
7. pāi measure word a section of music
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: (Guoyu '拍' n 3)

Contained in

• 拍婆子 to chase girls; to hang around with girls
• 竞拍(競拍) to auction
• 拍照 to photograph
• 拍电(拍電) to send a telegram
• 拍击(拍擊) to smack; to beat
• 一拍即合 to be together from the first beat; to hit it off; to click together; to chime in easily
• 讨拍(討拍) to seek sympathy
• 拍拍屁股走人 to make oneself scarce / to slip away / to take French leave
• 拍档(拍檔) partner
• 实拍(實拍) candid photograph; genuine photograph (not set up or doctored)
• 拍案叫绝(拍案叫絕) slap the table and shout with praise; wonderful!; amazing!; great!
• 节拍(節拍) rhthym; meter
• 拍马屁(拍馬屁) to flatter; to fawn on; to butter somebody up; toadying; boot-licking
• 拍黄瓜(拍黃瓜) smashed cucumber salad
• 自拍杆(自拍桿) selfie stick
• 拍胸脯 to vouch for
• 拍电影(拍電影) to make a movie
• 空拍 aerial photography (video or still)
• 乒乓球拍 ping-pong paddle
• 拍拖 to date sb
• 拍客 citizen journalist
• 法拍 judicial auction; to sell by judicial auction
• 拍卖会(拍賣會) auction
• 自拍神器 selfie stick
• 吹牛拍马(吹牛拍馬) to resort to bragging and flattering
• 拍宰海族 Pazeh people
• 一拍两散(一拍兩散) (of marriage or business partners) to break up; to separate
• 自拍照 selfie
• 自拍模式 camera self-timer mode (for delayed shutter release)
• 打拍子 to beat time
• 球拍 racket
• 拍板 to beat time with clappers ; clapper-board ; board struck to make noise at a market
• 拍发(拍發) to send; to cable (a telegram)
• 拍手叫好 to clap hands and shout applause
• 自拍 to take a picture or video of oneself; to take a selfie; selfie
• 拍马者(拍馬者) flatterer; toady
• 荷兰式拍卖(荷蘭式拍賣) Dutch auction / descending-price auction
• 拍演 to perform; to act (in a play etc)
• 拍案 to slap the table
• 拍掌 to clap; to applaud
• 拍摄(拍攝) to film; to take a picture
• 拍片 to film; to make a film
• 拍纸簿(拍紙簿) writing pad
• 拍岸 to beat against the shore (of waves)
• 一个巴掌拍不响(一個巴掌拍不響) one palm alone cannot clap; it takes two persons to start a dispute; it takes two to tango; it's difficult to achieve anything without support
• 吹吹拍拍 to boast and flatter

Also contained in

二拍 、 筹拍 、 那空拍侬 、 投拍 、 那空拍侬府

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• 卷六十六　列傳第五十六 杜僧明 周文育 侯瑱 侯安都 歐陽頠 黃法𣰰 淳于量 章昭達 吳明徹 Volume 66 Biographies 56: Du Sengming, Zhou Wenyu, Hou Zhen, Hou Andou, Ouyang Wei, Huang Fa, Chun Yuliang, Zhang Zhaoda, Wu Mingche History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 7
• 卷十一 列傳第五: 黃法抃 淳于量 章昭達 Volume 11: Huang Faqu; Chunyu Liang; Zhang Zhaoda Book of Chen 陳書 — count: 6
• 卷二百二十二下 列傳第一百四十七下 南蠻下 Volume 222c Biographies 147c: Southern Man 3 New Book of Tang 新唐書 — count: 4
• 第三回 Chapter 3 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 4
• 卷四 Scroll 4 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 4
• 卷二十二　列傳第十二 王曇首 Volume 22 Biographies 12: Wang Tanshou History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 4
• 第四十五回 Chapter 45 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 4
• 卷四十五　列傳第三十五 王敬則 陳顯達 張敬兒 崔慧景 Volume 45 Biographies 35: Wang Jingze, Chen Xianda, Zhang Jing'er, Cui Huijing History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 3
• 第五十一回 Chapter 51 Water Margin 水滸傳 — count: 3
• 第三十回 Chapter 30 The Scholars 儒林外史 — count: 3

Collocations

• 一拍 (一拍) 略將腳一拍 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第十三回 Chapter 13 — count: 9
• 豚拍 (豚拍) 豚拍 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 天官冢宰 第一 1. Office of the Heaven and Prime Minister — count: 8
• 拍试 (拍試) 行門拍試 — History of Song 宋史, 卷一百六十六 志第一百十九 職官六 Volume 166 Treatises 119: Offical Posts 6 — count: 5
• 施拍 (施拍) 红軍施拍縱火 — Book of Chen 陳書, 卷九 列傳第三: 侯瑱 歐陽頠 吳明徹 裴子烈 Volume 9: Hou Tian; Ouyang Wei; Wu Mingche; Pei Zilie — count: 5
• 抚拍 (撫拍) 抚拍豪强 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷八十下 文苑列傳 Volume 80b: Biographies of Writers 2 — count: 4
• 发拍 (髮拍) 發拍中于賊艦 — Book of Chen 陳書, 卷九 列傳第三: 侯瑱 歐陽頠 吳明徹 裴子烈 Volume 9: Hou Tian; Ouyang Wei; Wu Mingche; Pei Zilie — count: 4
• 地拍 (地拍) 燒地拍鼠 — History of Liao 遼史, 卷五十三　志第二十二: 禮志六 Volume 53 Treatises 23: Rites 6 — count: 4
• 拍坐下 (拍坐下) 拍坐下馬 — Water Margin 水滸傳, 第四十七回 Chapter 47 — count: 3
• 拍竿 (拍竿) 左右前後置六拍竿 — Book of Sui 隋書, 卷48　列傳第13 楊素 Volume 48 Biographies 13: Yang Su — count: 3
• 拍洪 (拍洪) 右拍洪崖肩 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷三十三 列傳第二十七 王僧孺 張率 劉孝綽 王筠 Volume 33: Wang Sengru; Zhang Shuai; Liu Xiaochuo — count: 3