牌
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signboard; plaque; plate; tablet (CL:塊|块[kuai4]); brand; trademark; mahjong tile; domino; playing card (CL:張|张[zhang1]); (bound form) fixed pattern for lyrics or set melody in classical poetry or music (used in 詞牌|词牌[ci2 pai2] and 曲牌[qu3 pai2])
- HSK 3.0
- Level 3
- Old HSK
- Level 4
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 片 +8
- Structure
- Left–right 左右
- Traditional
- 牌
- Common rank
- #673
- Unicode
- U+724C
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 牌
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 自有品牌 | private brand | |
| 名牌儿 | erhua form of 名牌[ming2 pai2] | |
| 主打品牌 | flagship brand | |
| 子品牌 | sub-brand | |
| 双牌县 | Shuangpai, a county in Yongzhou City 永州市[Yong3 zhou1 Shi4], Hunan | |
| 联合品牌 | to cobrand | |
| 主品牌 | umbrella brand (marketing) | |
| 大牌 | strong card; honor card (card games); very popular or successful person; self-important | |
| 牌子 | sign; trademark; brand | |
| 头牌 | tablet announcing the name of leading actor in a theatrical production; by extension, the … | |
| 无牌 | unlicensed; unlabeled (goods) | |
| 白牌 | (of a product) unbranded | |
| 金牌 | gold medal; CL:枚[mei2] | |
| 上牌 | to obtain a license plate | |
| 高牌 | high card (poker) | |
| 塔罗牌 | tarot card | |
| 发牌 | to deal (cards) | |
| 标语牌 | placard | |
| 车牌 | vehicle license plate | |
| 门牌 | door plate; house number |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 卑 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 卑 sound part | humble, low, inferior; to despise | |
| 碑 | stone tablet; gravestone | |
| 鹎 | bulbul, songbird; Pycnonotidae | |
| 啤 | beer | |
| 脾 | spleen, pancreas; temper, disposition | |
| 俾 | so that, in order that; to cause | |
| 稗 | darnels, weeds; small, insignificant | |
| 郫 | place name | |
| 蜱 | tick, mite | |
| 捭 | to open up, to spread out | |
| 睥 | to glare at; to look askance | |
| 埤 | to add, to increase; to attach; fence, wall | |
| 萆 | castor oil; the castor-oil plant | |
| 陴 | parapet; city wall |