拍

拍
pa̅i = p + ai1
to pat / to clap / to slap / to swat / to take (a photo) / to shoot (a film) / racket (sports) / beat (music)
拍 = 扌 + 白 : Pinocchio (p) is spinning a white flag (白) in front of the airplane (ai1). He is throwing and catching the flag with a toy claw (扌). Many people stop to watch and applaud (拍) him.

拍 character breakdown

扌
shǒu = sh + ou3
"hand" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 64), occurring in 提, 把, 打 etc
扌 = 二 + 亅 : Mnemonic symbol: a toy claw.
白
bái = b + ai2
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
白 = 丶 + 日 : Mnemonic symbol: a white flag. The sun (日) is waving with a white (白) flag (白) in the airplane's kitchen (ai2) while Beelzebub (b) is beating them with a big petal leaf (丶).

Characters with 拍 as component

啪
pa̅ = p + a1
(onom.) bang / pop / pow

Words with 拍

拍
拍
摄
攝
to film / to shoot (a picture)
拍
子
beat (music) / paddle-shaped object (flyswatter etc) / racket (sports)
拍
手
to clap one's hands
拍
打
to pat / to slap / (of a bird) to flap (one's wings)
拍
拍
戏
戲
to shoot a movie
拍
拍
击
擊
to smack / to beat
拍
案
而
起
lit. to slap the table and stand up (idiom); fig. at the end of one's tether / unable to take it any more
拍
拖
(dialect) to date sb
拍
拍
屁
股
走
人
to make oneself scarce / to slip away / to take French leave
拍
岸
to beat against the shore (of waves)
拍
客
citizen journalist (typically posting short, self-produced documentary videos on the Web)

Sentences with 拍

拍 currently does not appear in any sentence.