HSK 6 · Verbs

趴 pā “to lie face down” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 趴 means

  1. to lie face down
  2. to lean on (a table)
  3. to lie on one’s stomach
  4. to lean forward, resting one’s upper body (on a desktop etc)

How to say 趴

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale趴pā1st tone, high and level

趴 in a sentence

  1. 我趴着睡觉。

    Wǒ pā zhe shuìjiào.

    I sleep on my stomach.

    Sentence #8555685 from Tatoeba

  2. 趴在地上！

    Pā zài dìshang!

    Get down on the floor!

    Sentence #833806 from Tatoeba

How 趴 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 趴 (pā) with each of its parts in a different colour
趴pāto lie on one’s stomach
  • 足foot · zúMeaning part
  • 八eight · bāSound part

足 hints at the meaning (foot); 八 (bā) hints at the sound. Compare it with pā.

How to write 趴

趴 9 strokes

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趴 (pā) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 趴 (pā). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 趴

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FAQs

趴 (pā) means “to lie face down” or “to lean on (a table)”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it pā: pā with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 趴 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pa with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 趴 from the suggestions. Typing pa into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
趴 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.