pái
row
Phonosemantic compound. 扌 represents the meaning and 非 represents the sound.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
pái
row, rank, line; a row; a line; to set in order; to arrange; to line up; to eliminate; to drain; to push open; platoon; raft; classifier for lines, rows etc
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[b]ˤrəj | beaj | pái | push |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 64.8246% of movies
614th most common character in movies
682nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 11 |
Unicode | U+6392 |
Shuowen | “排，擠也。从手，非聲。” |
Sources
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