拍

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

• 啪, 𣁨

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *pʰraːɡ): semantic 手 (“hand”) + phonetic 白 (OC *braːɡ).

拍

1. to pat; to slap; to clap; to swat; to hit with a flat surface (palm, swatter, etc.)

   拍蚊 [Cantonese]  ―  paak³ man¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to swat mosquitoes

   1. (Taiwanese Hokkien, music) to play (a percussion instrument)

      拍鼓 [Hokkien]  ―  phah-kó͘ [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to play the drums

2. racket; swatter; paddle (flat implement for hitting)

   蒼蠅拍／苍蝇拍  ―  cāngyingpāi  ―  flyswatter

3. to take; to shoot (a picture, a video, etc.)

   他拍的照片全部都是過曝的。 [MSC, trad.]
   他拍的照片全部都是过曝的。 [MSC, simp.]

   Tā pāi de zhàopiàn quánbù dōu shì guòbào de. [Pinyin]

   The pictures he took are all overexposed.

   拍片 [Cantonese]  ―  paak³ pin^3-2 [Jyutping]  ―  to shoot a video

4. Used as a dummy verb to make a verbal phrase from a noun, including but not limited to:
   1. (Min) to call (on the phone)

      拍電話／拍电话 [Hokkien]  ―  phah tiān-ōe [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to call someone on the phone

      拍手機／拍手机 [Hokkien]  ―  phah chhiú-ki [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to call someone's cellphone

   2. (Mandarin, Hokkien) to send (a telegram)

      拍電報／拍电报  ―  pāi diànbào  ―  to send a telegram

   3. (Hokkien, computing) to type
   4. (Hokkien) to perform (a martial art)
   5. (Hokkien) to make (a gesture, signal, etc.)

      拍招呼 [Hokkien]  ―  phah-chio-ho͘ [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to say hello

   6. (Hokkien) to perform sexual activity

      拍手銃／拍手铳 [Hokkien]  ―  phah-chhiú-chhèng [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to masturbate

   7. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to play (mahjong, card games, etc.)
   8. (Taiwanese Hokkien) to buy (meat, etc.)

      拍肉 [Hokkien]  ―  phah bah [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to buy meat

5. (online shopping) to place an order
6. (Cantonese) to move an object closer to another object; to be near; to become near

   拍返埋張凳／拍返埋张凳 [Cantonese]  ―  paak³ faan¹ maai⁴ zoeng¹ dang³ [Jyutping]  ―  put the chair back [under the table]

   拍牆／拍墙 [Cantonese]  ―  paak³ coeng⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  to stick to the wall

   拍埋一齊／拍埋一齐 [Cantonese]  ―  paak³ maai⁴ jat¹ cai⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  to put two things next to each other

7. (Cantonese, figuratively) to cooperate

   拍住上 [Cantonese]  ―  paak³ zyu⁶ soeng⁵ [Jyutping]  ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

8. (Min) to hit; to beat; to whack

   拍尻川 [Hokkien]  ―  phah kha-chhng [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]  ―  to spank someone's bottom

9. (Hokkien) to fight; to attack
10. (Hokkien) to breed; to mate; to copulate
11. (Hokkien, music) bamboo clapper for beating time in nanyin (made of two bamboo blocks)
12. (Wuhan Mandarin) to brownnose; to suck up; to kiss someone's ass
13. (music) Classifier for beats.

    每小節有四拍。／每小节有四拍。  ―  Měi xiǎojié yǒu sì pāi.  ―  Every measure has four beats.

• (to take a picture):

• (to call on the phone): (Hokkien, Teochew) 敲 (khà), (Mandarin, Cantonese) 打 (dǎ)
• (to hit):

• (to brownnose):

• “拍”, in 教育部臺灣台語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwanese Taigi] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2025.

(Jōyō kanji)

• Go-on: ひゃく (hyaku)
• Kan-on: はく (haku, Jōyō)
• Kan’yō-on: ひょう (hyō, Jōyō ^†)
• Kun: うつ (utsu, 拍つ)

From Middle Chinese 拍 (phæk).

• (Tokyo) はく [háꜜkù] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1][2]
• IPA^(key): [ha̠kɯ̟]

拍(はく) • (haku) 

1. (music) beat
2. (phonology) mora

拍 (eumhun 칠 박 (chil bak))

1. hanja form^? of 박 (“clap, tap, beat”)
2. hanja form^? of 박 (“beat, rhythm”)

拍 (eumhun 어깨 박 (eokkae bak))

1. hanja form^? of 박 (“shoulder”)

拍: Hán Nôm readings: phếch, phách, vạch, phạch, phệch

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