排

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 非 – 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)

1. row, rank, line

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

排 (Jyutping paai4, Yale paai4)

1. (military) platoon

Usage notes

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

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Japanese

Kanji

排

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

Readings

• On: はい (hai)
• Kun: おしひらく (oshihiraku), つらねる (tsuraneru)

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Korean

Hanja

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

Compounds

• 排球 volleyball

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

排 (Pinyin pái (pai2), Wade-Giles p'ai²)

1. (military) platoon

Compounds

• 排队, 排隊 (páiduì)
• 排球 (páiqiú): volleyball
• 排箫, 排簫 (páixiāo)
• 排泄 (páixiè)

Usage notes

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

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Middle Chinese

Han character

排 (*bhæi)

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Min Nan

Han character

排 (pâi (pai5))

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Vietnamese

Han character

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