趴

趴 U+8DB4, 趴 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8DB4 ← 足 [U+8DB3] CJK Unified Ideographs 趵 → [U+8DB5]

Translingual

Han character

趴 (Kangxi radical 157, 足+2, 9 strokes, cangjie input 口一金 (RMC), four-corner 6810₀, composition ⿰𧾷八)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 1221, character 25
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 37375
• Dae Jaweon: page 1693, character 8
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3687, character 7
• Unihan data for U+8DB4

Chinese

trad.		趴
simp. #		趴

Glyph origin

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声) : semantic 足 (“foot”) + phonetic 八 (OC *preːd).

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pā (pa¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): paa¹
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pha

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pā
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pa
    • Wade–Giles: pʻa¹
    • Yale: pā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pa
    • Palladius: па (pa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰä⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: paa¹
    • Yale: pā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: pa¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰaː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pha
    • Tâi-lô: pha
    • Phofsit Daibuun: phaf
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pʰa³³/
    • IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /pʰa⁴⁴/

Note: pha - vernacular.

Definitions

趴

1. to lie on one's stomach

   趴在床上  ―  pā zài chuáng shàng  ―  to lie on one's stomach on a bed

2. to rest one's upper body on a surface; to bend over a surface

   趴在桌子上  ―  pā zài zhuōzǐ shàng  ―  to rest one's upper body on a table

Synonyms

• (to rest one's upper body on a surface): 撲／扑 (pū)

Compounds

• 趴下 (pāxia)
• 趴伏
• 趴窩／趴窝 (pāwō)

 

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese パーセント (pāsento), from English percent.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pā (pa¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄚ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pā
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pa
    • Wade–Giles: pʻa¹
    • Yale: pā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pa
    • Palladius: па (pa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰä⁵⁵/

Definitions

趴

1. (Taiwan) percent

   十八趴  ―  shí bā pā  ―  eighteen percent

Synonyms

• pha (Hokkien)
• phă-siàn-tò͘ (Hokkien, Taiwan, dated)
• 巴仙率 (bāxiānlǜ) (Malaysia, Singapore)
• 百分數／百分数 (bǎifēnshù)
• 百分比 (bǎifēnbǐ)
• 百分率 (bǎifēnlǜ)

 

Compounds

• 趴數／趴数

 

Etymology 3

Clipping of 趴體／趴体 (pātǐ), from English party.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pā (pa¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄚ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pā
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pa
    • Wade–Giles: pʻa¹
    • Yale: pā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pa
    • Palladius: па (pa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰä⁵⁵/

Definitions

趴

1. (informal) party

   生日趴  ―  shēngrìpā  ―  birthday party

Compounds

• 生日趴 (shēngrìpā)
• 趴體／趴体 (pātǐ)
• 開趴／开趴 (kāipā)

 

References

• “趴”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Vietnamese

Han character

趴: Hán Nôm readings: bát, vát

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