排
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)
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Dict coverage rank #540 U+6392
How 排 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
扌 (semantic, “hand”) + 非 (phonetic, fēi)
How to remember it
row · Heisig RSH #1268
fingers + jail cell
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 非
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 非 (fēi) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 非 sound component | fēi | not, negative, non-; to oppose |
| 悲 | bēi | sorrow, sadness, grief; to be sorry |
| 菲 | fēi | fragrant; rich, luxuriant; the Philippines |
| 辈 | bèi | generation, lifetime; contemporary |
| 啡 | fēi | coffee; morphine |
| 匪 | fěi | bandits, robbers, gangsters |
| 斐 | fěi | graceful, elegant, beautiful |
| 腓 | féi | leg, calf; to wither, to decay |
| 蜚 | fēi | cockroach |
| 翡 | fěi | kingfisher; jade, emerald |
| 俳 | pái | actor; vaudeville show; insincere |
| 鲱 | fēi | herring |
| 扉 | fēi | door panel |
| 痱 | fèi | heat rash; prickly heat; ulcers |
| 绯 | fēi | crimson, scarlet; purple |
| 诽 | fěi | to condemn, to slander, to vilify |
| 裴 | péi | flowing gown; surname |
| 悱 | fěi | overcome with emotion; at a loss for words |
| 霏 | fēi | rainfall, snowfall |
Words containing 排
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大排长龙 | dà pái cháng lóng | to form a long queue (idiom); (of cars) to be bumper to bumper |
| 排水口 | pái shuǐ kǒu | plughole; drainage hole |
| 有排面 | yǒu pái miàn | (neologism) (coll.) ostentatious; showy; impressive |
| 地排车 | dì pǎi chē | handcart |
| 排风口 | pái fēng kǒu | exhaust vent |
| 排山倒海 | pái shān dǎo hǎi | lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering; fig. giganti… |
| 排水管 | pái shuǐ guǎn | drainpipe; waste pipe |
| 排气管 | pái qì guǎn | exhaust pipe |
| 排水量 | pái shuǐ liàng | displacement |
| 一排 | yī pái | row |
| 排水 | pái shuǐ | to drain |
| 自排 | zì pái | automatic transmission |
| 排海 | pái hǎi | to drain (wastewater) into the sea |
| 排行 | pái háng | to rank; ranking; seniority (among siblings) |
| 安排 | ān pái | to arrange; to plan; to set up; arrangements; plans |
| 手排 | shǒu pái | (Tw) manual transmission (abbr. for 手動排檔|手动排档[shou3 dong4 pai2 dang4]) |
| 排气 | pái qì | to ventilate |
| 排长 | pái zhǎng | platoon leader; sergeant |
| 排面 | pái miàn | a row of things facing oneself (esp. a row of products on a shelf facing customers in a st… |
| 排出 | pái chū | to discharge |