Slap in Chinese
to slap · HSK 4
拍
他轻轻拍了拍我的肩膀。 He gently patted me on the shoulder.
Other ways to say slap
More words with 拍
How do you say slap in Chinese?
Slap in Chinese is 拍 (pāi). You can also say 扇 (shān).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.