排

pái

a row

a line; to set in order; to arrange; to line up; to eliminate; to drain; to push open; platoon; raft; classifier for lines, rows etc

hand (扌) + phonetic 非 = arrange in a row by hand

The hand radical drives the meaning: pushing, arranging, and lining things up are all manual acts. 非 contributes the sound pái and does not carry semantic weight here.

扌+非→排
扌HandSemantic
非WrongPhonetic

请大家排成一排,等候入场。

qǐng dàjiā pái chéng yī pái,děnghòu rùchǎng。

Please everyone line up in a row and wait to enter.

工人们把椅子排成整齐的几排。

gōngrénmen bǎ yǐzi pái chéng zhěngqí de jǐ pái。

The workers arranged the chairs into several neat rows.

Words with 排

排头兵

pái tóu bīng

lit. frontline troops

给排水

jǐ pái shuǐ

water supply and drainage

排放

pái fàng

to arrange in order

排水管

pái shuǐ guǎn

drainpipe

排量

pái liàng

discharge volume

鸡排

jī pái

chicken breast

排山倒海

pái shān dǎo hǎi

lit. to topple the mountains and overturn the seas (idiom); earth-shattering

排便

pái biàn

to defecate

速手排

sù shǒu pái

gears (in a car)

部首编排法

bù shǒu biān pái fǎ

dictionary arrangement of Chinese characters under radicals

重排

chóng pái

to rearrange

铺排

pū pái

to arrange

More characters with 扌

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