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趴

pā

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 character level 7-9 Character

趴 (pā) means "to lie on one's stomach; to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc); (Tw) percent". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 趴 means

1. to lie on one's stomach
2. to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc)
3. Taiwanpercent (from Japanese "pā", short for "pāsento")

Example sentences

• 趴下！
  Pā xià!
  Get down!
• 趴着！
  Stay down!
• 趴在地上!
  Pā zài dìshàng!
  Get down on the floor!
• 我趴着睡觉。
  I sleep on my stomach.
• 汤姆趴在方向盘上睡着了。
  Tāngmǔ pā zài fāngxiàngpán shàng shuìzháo le.
  Tom fell asleep at the wheel.

Words starting with 趴

• 趴伏pā fúto crouch; to lie prone
• 趴窝pā wō(colloquial) (of a hen) to sit in the nest to lay or hatch eggs…
• 趴踢pā ti(loanword) party
• 趴体pā tǐ(loanword) party
• 趴趴走pā pā zǒu(Taiwan) to wander about; to roam around freely…

Words containing 趴

• 淫趴yín pā(slang) sex party
• 累趴lèi pātired to the point of dropping
• 轰趴hōng pā(loanword) party (social gathering); (Taiwan) party…
• 马趴mǎ pāface-plant
• 轰趴馆hōng pā guǎnparty venue (available for hire)

Characters that look like 趴

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 积jīto amass; to accumulate; to store up; (math) product (the result of multiplication)…
• 缸gāngjar; vat; classifier for loads of laundry
• 耙bàa hoe; to harrow

Sounds the same

Read pā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 啪(onomatopoeia) bang; pop; pow
• 派used in 派司
• 葩corolla of flower
• 苩old variant of 葩

Where 趴 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · pā–pán (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read pā correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.