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拍 — to pat; to clap; to slap

to pat; to clap; to slap; to swat; to take; to shoot; racket

Pinyin
pāi
Strokes
8
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
recognition only

How to write 拍: 8 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

拍 — 8 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 拍 in the HSK syllabus: 5

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 拍照pāizhàoto take a pictureHSK 3
  2. 拍pāito pat; to clap; to slap; to swat; to take; to shootHSK 4
  3. 拍摄pāishèto take; to shootHSK 5
  4. 拍板pāibǎnwooden clappers; to beat time with clappersHSK 7–9
  5. 拍卖pāimàito auction; auction sale; to sell at a reduced priceHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.