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Mythic Mandarin

牌 (pái): meaning and stroke order

牌 (pái) means signboard; plaque; plate; tablet (块), brand; trademark (个).

牌

Simplified
牌
Traditional
牌 (same form)
Pinyin
pái

Stroke order of 牌

牌

  • pái signboard; plaque; plate; tablet (CL:塊|块[kuai4]); brand; trademark (CL:個|个[ge4])
  • 12 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 牌

  1. pái
    • signboard; plaque; plate; tablet (CL:塊|块[kuai4])
    • brand; trademark (CL:個|个[ge4])
    • 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])

Radical and structure

牌
Radical 片 (Kangxi radical 91) · 12 strokes · 片 on the left, 卑 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.

Words with 牌

牌 in our stories

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  • 他按照行李牌上的电话打过去，一个女人着急地说：“对不起，我拿错了！”

    tā ànzhào xíngli pái shàng de diànhuà dǎ guòqu yí gè nǚrén zháojí de shuō duìbuqǐ wǒ ná cuò le

    He rang the number on the luggage tag, and a woman said anxiously, "I'm so sorry, I took the wrong one!"

    From the story The identical suitcase HSK 4

Stories using 牌

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).