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.

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请大家成一排,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

鸡排

jī pái

chicken breast

鱼排

yú pái

fish steak

一排

yī pái

row

丁骨牛排

dīng gǔ niú pái

T-bone steak

并排

bìng pái

side by side

偷排

tōu pái

to dump illegally

冰排

bīng pái

ice raft; ice floe

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