拍

Translingual

Han character

拍 (radical 64 手+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 手竹日 (QHA), four-corner 5600₀)

1. clap, tap, beat
2. beat or rhythm

References

• KangXi: page 425, character 7
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11952
• Dae Jaweon: page 773, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1854, character 3
• Unihan data for U+62CD

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Cantonese

Hanzi

拍 (Yale paak3)

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Japanese

Kanji

拍 (common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: はく (haku), ひょう (hyō)
• Kun: うつ (utsu)

Counter

拍 (hiragana はく, romaji -haku)

1. (music) beats

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Korean

Hanja

拍 (hangeul 박, revised bak, McCune-Reischauer pak, Yale pak)

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

拍 (pinyin bó (bo2), pāi (pai1), pò (po4), Wade-Giles po², p'ai¹, p'o⁴)

Compounds

• 拍板
• 拍马屁, 拍馬屁
• 拍卖, 拍賣
• 拍摄, 拍攝
• 拍手
• 拍照

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Middle Chinese

Han character

拍 (pæk)

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Vietnamese

Han character

拍 (phách, phếch, vạch, phạch, phệch)