排
Meanings
- to arrange in order; to line up
- to exclude; to eliminate; to repel; to expel; to discharge
- (literary) to push aside; to force open
- to rehearse
- row; line
- platoon
- (bound form) steak; chop
- (bound form) raft
- classifier for rows or lines (of people or things)
Characters in this entry
- 排
- pái · row, rank, line
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2 · pai2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
bik1 · paai4
Cantonese word readings for 排. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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character · Etymology 1
- to put in order
- to rehearse
- row; rank; line
- raft
- wood, bamboo, etc. bound together for transport along a river
- (military) platoon
- (abbreviation, alt-of) short for 排球 (páiqiú, “volleyball”)
- slab of meat
- to push away; to reject
- to eject; to emit; to excrete
- (Cantonese) to queue
- (Northern Wu) to beat; to strike
- (Ningbonese) to crack
character · Etymology 2
- (Cantonese) time period
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