排

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *brɯːl): semantic 扌 ‎(“hand”) + phonetic 非 ‎(OC *pɯl) – to place in line.

Han character

排 (radical 64 手+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 手中一卜 (QLMY), four-corner 5101₁, composition ⿰扌非)

References

• KangXi: page 437, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12256
• Dae Jaweon: page 787, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1895, character 3
• Unihan data for U+6392

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		排

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pái (pai²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄞˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): paai⁴
• Min Nan (POJ): pâi

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: pái
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄞˊ
    • Wade-Giles: p'ai²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pair
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰaɪ̯³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: paai⁴
    • Yale: pàaih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: paai⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /pʰɑːi̯²¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pâi
    • Tâi-lô: pâi
    • Phofsit Daibuun: paai
    • IPA (Taipei): /paɪ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /paɪ¹³/

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• Middle Chinese: /bˠɛi/▼

Rime
Character	排
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	並 (3)
Final (韻)	皆 (33)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	步皆切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/bˠɛi/
Pan Wuyun	/bᵚæi/
Shao Rongfen	/bɐi/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/bəɨj/
Li Rong	/bɛi/
Wang Li	/bɐi/
Bernard Karlgren	/bʱăi/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	pái

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*[b]ˤrəj/

  (Zhengzhang): /*brɯːl/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	排
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	pái
Middle Chinese	‹ bɛj ›
Old Chinese	/*[b]ˤrəj/
English	push
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	排
Reading #	1/1
No.	3064
Phonetic component	非
Rime group	微
Rime subdivision	1
Corresponding MC rime	排
Old Chinese	/*brɯːl/

Noun

排

1. row, rank, line
2. (military) platoon

Compounds

• 排隊／排队 (páiduì)
• 排球 (páiqiú, “volleyball”)
• 排簫／排箫 (páixiāo)
• 排泄 (páixiè)

Usage notes

• (military): Under the National Revolutionary Army, a platoon was composed of three squads (班 (bān)). In turn, three platoons formed a company (連／连 (lián)).

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Japanese

Kanji

排

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. repudiate

Readings

• Goon: べ (be) (non-Jōyō reading)
• Kan’on: はい (hai)
• Kun: おしひらく (oshihiraku), つらねる (tsuraneru)

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Korean

Hanja

排 • ‎(bae) (hangeul 배, revised bae, McCune-Reischauer pae, Yale pay)

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Compounds

• 排球 volleyball

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Vietnamese

Han character

排 (bài, bai, bày, bời, bay, bầy, vài, vời)

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