打拍子 Save Sign in to save words dǎpāizi ㄉㄚˇ ㄆㄞ ˙ㄗ to beat time Character by character 打(dǎ)a semantically light, transitive verb that is combined with various grammatical objects to form compound verbs and verb-object phrases with a diverse range of meanings 拍(pāi)pat 子(zi)noun suffix, as in 椅子 yǐzi "chair" A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0