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Will Dreesen
Will Dreesen
5 years ago

The left radical is the hand and the right side is the object being patted.

Ruby Rich
Ruby Rich
4 years ago

This character is composed of two components: a hand radical and the character for white. It looks like Bai is PATting a stick with his hands made out of two small strokes.

Sherab Ghale
Sherab Ghale
3 years ago

one needs their “Hand” to “pat”.

Luciana Emerson
Luciana Emerson
2 years ago

the left looks like a person holding a racket or paddle and the right looks like a ping pong table

Munkh-Erdene Altanbaatar
Munkh-Erdene Altanbaatar
2 years ago

A person uses their hand to pat something.

Ari Harris
Ari Harris
1 year ago

This character looks kind of like a cat- with the radical on the left being the tail. This definition rhymes with cat, and the action is something you would often do to a cat.

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NYU Shanghai
Ezra Palmore
Ezra Palmore
1 year ago

This character looks like a tennis racket that has been disassembled

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NYU New York
Mishka
Mishka
1 year ago

of the strokes of the inverted t ( left part) is trying to PAT and get some 2 layered cake next to it

School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Oyuka B
Oyuka B
1 year ago

right character is hand and left character is white. when hand comes in contact with an object or to pat something, the surface becomes white from the pressure.

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NYU Shanghai
Nghia Nim
Nghia Nim
1 year ago

拍 combines 手 (hand) and 白 (white). Imagine clapping your hands so fast they turn white.

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NYU Abu Dhabi
Linh Hoang
Linh Hoang
1 year ago

left is hand, right is white (bai). you use the HAND to PAT a WHITE creature (like a pet)

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NYU Abu Dhabi
Catherine
Catherine
5 months ago

Hand radical (to show the meaning of this word, to PAT) and character for white (bai)

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NYU Shanghai
Brenna
Brenna
8 days ago

You can imagine a person patting a persons’s back with a white glove because they radical is a hand radical and the one on the right means white.

Bindy
Bindy
8 days ago

it looks like you are PATting your hand on something white and it becomes white

Enes
Enes
1 day ago

It resembles a rocket launch station — with the structure on the left acting as the launcher that holds the rocket, and the rocket itself standing on the right, ready for lift-off.

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NYU Shanghai
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