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趴 (pā): meaning and stroke order

趴 (pā) means to lie on one's stomach, to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc).

趴

Simplified
趴
Traditional
趴 (same form)
Pinyin
pā

Stroke order of 趴

趴

  • pā to lie on one's stomach; to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc)
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 趴

  1. pā
    • to lie on one's stomach
    • to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc)
    • (Tw) percent

Radical and structure

趴
Radical 足 (Kangxi radical 157) · 9 strokes · 𧾷 on the left, 八 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

趴 in our stories

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  • 没想到，午时三刻，魏征趴在棋盘上打了个盹——在梦里，他已经斩了龙王。

    méi xiǎngdào wǔshí sān kè Wèi Zhēng pā zài qípán shàng dǎ le gè dǔn zài mèng lǐ tā yǐjīng zhǎn le Lóngwáng

    But at a quarter past the hour of the Horse, Wei Zheng dozed off over the chessboard, and in his dream he beheaded the Dragon King.

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 他转身跑到黄河边，趴下来大口大口地喝水，一口气把黄河喝干了；又跑到渭水，把渭水也喝干了。

    tā zhuǎnshēn pǎo dào Huáng Hé biān pā xiàlai dàkǒu dàkǒu de hēshuǐ yìkǒuqì bǎ Huáng Hé hē gān le yòu pǎo dào Wèishuǐ bǎ Wèishuǐ yě hē gān le

    He turned and ran to the Yellow River, lay down and gulped the water, drinking the Yellow River dry in one go; then he ran to the Wei River and drank that dry too.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 趴

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).