Printable Writing Practice Worksheet of "拍" in Portrait Orientation (Tian Zi Ge)
Printable Writing Practice Worksheet of "拍" in Landscape Orientation (Tian Zi Ge)
Pinyin
pāi
Definition
to clap / to pat / to beat / to hit / to slap / to take (a picture)
to auction / auction sale / to sell at a reduced price
to flatter / to fawn on / to butter sb up / toadying / boot-licking
to film / to shoot (a picture)
to pat / to slap / (of a bird) to flap (one's wings)
to urge on a horse by patting its bottom / fig. to encourage / same as 拍馬屁|拍马屁, to flatter or toady
clapper-board / auctioneer's hammer / to beat time with clappers
pound the desk / pound the table / bang the table / bang the desk
auction company / auction house
lit. to slap the table (in amazement, praise, anger, resentment etc) / fig. astonishing!, wonderful!, dreadful! etc
lit. to slap the table and stand up (idiom); fig. at the end of one's tether / unable to take it any more
in time with (i.e. same rhythm) / to keep in step with / fig. to cooperate
beat (music) / paddle-shaped object (flyswatter etc) / racket (sports)
handle of bat / handle of racket
to smooth whiskers and pat a horse's bottom (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants / to toady / boot-licking