排
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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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- Level 2
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 11
- Radical
- 手 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 排
- Common rank
- #540
- Unicode
- U+6392
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
row · Heisig RSH #1268
fingers + jail cell
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 排
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大排长龙 | to form a long queue (idiom); (of cars) to be bumper to bumper | |
| 排水口 | plughole; drainage hole | |
| 有排面 | (neologism) (coll.) ostentatious; showy; impressive | |
| 地排车 | handcart | |
| 排风口 | exhaust vent | |
| 排山倒海 | lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering; fig. giganti… | |
| 排水管 | drainpipe; waste pipe | |
| 排气管 | exhaust pipe | |
| 排水量 | displacement | |
| 一排 | row | |
| 排水 | to drain | |
| 自排 | automatic transmission | |
| 排海 | to drain (wastewater) into the sea | |
| 排行 | to rank; ranking; seniority (among siblings) | |
| 安排 | to arrange; to plan; to set up; arrangements; plans | |
| 手排 | (Tw) manual transmission (abbr. for 手動排檔|手动排档[shou3 dong4 pai2 dang4]) | |
| 排气 | to ventilate | |
| 排长 | platoon leader; sergeant | |
| 排面 | a row of things facing oneself (esp. a row of products on a shelf facing customers in a st… | |
| 排出 | to discharge |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 非 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 非 sound part | not, negative, non-; to oppose | |
| 悲 | sorrow, sadness, grief; to be sorry | |
| 菲 | fragrant; rich, luxuriant; the Philippines | |
| 辈 | generation, lifetime; contemporary | |
| 啡 | coffee; morphine | |
| 匪 | bandits, robbers, gangsters | |
| 斐 | graceful, elegant, beautiful | |
| 腓 | leg, calf; to wither, to decay | |
| 蜚 | cockroach | |
| 翡 | kingfisher; jade, emerald | |
| 俳 | actor; vaudeville show; insincere | |
| 鲱 | herring | |
| 扉 | door panel | |
| 痱 | heat rash; prickly heat; ulcers | |
| 绯 | crimson, scarlet; purple | |
| 诽 | to condemn, to slander, to vilify | |
| 裴 | flowing gown; surname | |
| 悱 | overcome with emotion; at a loss for words | |
| 霏 | rainfall, snowfall |