| 拍 | pāi | to pat; to clap; to slap; fly-swatter; racket; to take (a photograph) |
| 拍摄 | pāi shè | to film; to shoot (a picture) |
| 拍子 | pāi zi | racket (sports); bat; beat (music) |
| 节拍 | jié pāi | beat (music); meter |
| 拍手 | pāi shǒu | to clap one's hands |
| 拍照 | pāi zhào | to take a picture |
| 拍打 | pāi dǎ | to slap |
| 球拍 | qiú pāi | racket |
| 拍卖 | pāi mài | to auction; auction sale; to sell at a reduced price |
| 拍号 | pāi hào | time signature (music) |
| 合拍 | hé pāi | in time with (i.e. same rhythm); to keep in step with; fig. to cooperate |
| 打拍子 | dǎ pāi zi | to beat time |
| 一拍两散 | yī pāi liǎng sàn | lit. on the beat, move apart; fig. break-up (of marriage or business partners); separation |
| 一拍即合 | yī pāi jí hé | lit. on the beat, together now (idiom); Start dancing!; fig. things fit together at one go; to click together; to chime in easily |
| 乒乓球拍 | pīng pāng qiú pāi | ping-pong bat |
| 偷拍 | tōu pāi | to take a picture of a person without permission or without their knowledge |
| 初刻拍案惊奇 | chū kè pāi àn jīng qí | Slap the table in amazement, Part I; first of two books of stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌蒙初 |
| 吹吹拍拍 | chuī chuī pāi pāi | to boast and flatter |
| 实拍 | shí pāi | candid photograph; genuine photograph (not set up or doctored) |
| 急拍拍 | jí pāi pāi | hurried; impatient; rushed |
| 打拍 | dǎ pāi | to beat time; to mark rhythm on drum or clapper boards |
| 抓拍 | zhuā pāi | to capture (an image); to snap (a photo) |
| 拍出 | pāi chū | to sell at auction; to reach a given price at auction |
| 拍岸 | pāi àn | to beat the short (of waves) |
| 拍戏 | pāi xì | to shoot a movie |
| 拍拖 | pāi tuō | hitched together (of row-boat attached to motor-boat); to court (esp. Cantonese); courting couple; to depend on one another |
| 拍击 | pāi jī | to smack; to beat |
| 拍板 | pāi bǎn | clapper-board; auctioneer's hammer; to beat time with clappers |
| 拍案 | pāi àn | lit. to slap the table (in amazement, praise, anger, resentment etc); fig. astonishing!, wonderful!, dreadful! etc |
| 拍案叫绝 | pāi àn jiào jué | lit. slap the table and shout with praise (idiom); fig. wonderful!; amazing!; great! |
| 拍案而起 | pāi àn ér qǐ | lit. to slap the table and stand up (idiom); fig. at the end of one's tether; unable to take it any more |
| 拍案惊奇 | pāi àn jīng qí | to slap the table in amazement (idiom); wonderful!; amazing! |
| 拍档 | pāi dàng | partner |
| 拍片 | pāi piàn | to film; to make a film |
| 拍发 | pāi fā | to send; to cable (a telegram) |
| 拍胸脯 | pāi xiōng pú | to vouch for |
| 拍卖商 | pāi mài shāng | auctioneer; auction house |
| 拍卖会 | pāi mài huì | auction; CL:场 |
| 拍电 | pāi diàn | to send a telegram |
| 拍电影 | pāi diàn yǐng | to make a movie |
| 拍马 | pāi mǎ | to urge on a horse by patting its bottom; fig. to encourage; same as 拍马屁, to flatter or toady |
| 拍马屁 | pāi mǎ pì | to flatter; to fawn on; to butter sb up; toadying; boot-licking |
| 拍马者 | pāi mǎ zhě | flatterer; toady |
| 溜须拍马 | liū xū pāi mǎ | to smooth whiskers and pat a horse's bottom (idiom); to use flatter to get what one wants; to toady; boot-licking |
| 节拍器 | jié pāi qì | metronome |
| 筹拍 | chóu pāi | to prepare to film; to plan a shoot |
| 翻拍 | fān pāi | to reproduce photographically; to duplicate; to adapt (as a movie); to remake (a movie); adaptation; reproduction; remake |
| 自拍 | zì pāi | to take a picture of oneself, using a shutter delay timer, or by holding a camera at arm's length, or by remote control |
| 自拍器 | zì pāi qì | camera self-timer (for delayed shutter release) |
| 自拍模式 | zì pāi mó shì | camera self-timer mode (for delayed shutter release) |
