拍

to pat / to clap / to slap / to swat / to take (a photo) / to shoot (a film) / racket (sports) / beat (music)

"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc

white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera

to take a picture of a person without permission or without their knowledge

in time with (i.e. same rhythm) / to keep in step with / fig. to cooperate

lit. to be together from the first beat (idiom) / to hit it off / to click together / to chime in easily

Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part I), first of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初[Ling2 Meng2 chu1]

to boast and flatter

to resort to bragging and flattering / abbr. for 吹牛拍馬|吹牛拍马[chui1 niu2 pai1 ma3]

(idiom) (of marriage or business partners) to break up; to separate

lit. one palm alone cannot clap (proverb) / fig. it takes two persons to start a dispute / it takes two to tango / it's difficult to achieve anything without support

(of marriage or business partners) to break up (idiom) / to separate

Slapping the Table in Amazement (Part II), second of two books of vernacular stories by Ming dynasty novelist Ling Mengchu 凌濛初|凌蒙初[Ling2 Meng2 chu1]