拍 | pāi | to pat / to clap / to slap / to swat / to take (a photo) / to shoot (a film) / racket (sports) / beat (music) | |
扑 | pū | to throw oneself at / to pounce on / to devote one's energies / to flap / to flutter / to dab / to pat / to bend over | |
拍打 | pāi da | to pat / to slap / (of a bird) to flap (one's wings) | |
拊 | fǔ | pat | |
溜须拍马 | liū xū pāi mǎ | to smooth whiskers and pat a horse's bottom (idiom) / to use flatter to get what one wants / to toady / boot-licking |