Kanji 拍: "clap, beat (music)"

Stroke order

Strokes are written in the order of the numbers. The order is not decorative: it is what gives the character its balance, and it is also how handwriting search works in Japanese dictionaries.

Readings

In a kun'yomi reading, the dot separates the kanji from its okurigana: かた.る is read かたる and written 語る. A hyphen marks a bound position, like -び in 日.

At a glance

Common words with 拍

The most frequent words using this kanji, most common first, with furigana readings. Click one to open it in the reader.

• 拍はく手しゅclapping hands; applause · clapping one's hands in prayer (at a shrine)
• 拍ひょう子しtime; meter; metre; rhythm · beat
• 拍ひょう子し抜ぬけanticlimax; let-down; disappointment; loss of interest
• 一いっ拍ぱくone clap · one beat
• 突とっ拍ぴょう子しもないastounding; tremendous; wild; crazy
• 心しん拍ぱく数すうheart rate; pulse rate
• 拍はく車しゃをかけるto spur (on); to expedite; to encourage
• 拍はく手しゅを送おくるto give a round of applause; to applaud
• 何なにかの拍ひょう子しfor some reason or other; somehow or other; by some chance
• 脈みゃく拍はくpulse; pulse rate; pulsation; stroke of pulse
• 拍はくbeat · mora
• 手て拍びょう子しbeating time with one's hands; clapping to the beat · making a careless move (in go, shogi, etc.); responding to an opponent's move without proper thought

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