Playing cards in Chinese (Mandarin): 扑克牌 (pūkèpái)
扑克牌
pūkèpái
playing cards
- Simplified
- 扑克牌
- Traditional
- 撲克牌
- Pinyin
- pūkèpái
- Typed as
- pukepai
Use it in a sentence
我们玩扑克牌。
我們玩撲克牌。
We play cards.
The characters in 扑克牌
扑 / 撲
To pounce; here it is just for the sound.
5 strokes
克
To overcome; here it is just for the sound.
7 strokes
牌
Card.
12 strokes
扑克 sounds like "poker", and 牌 means card. Playing cards is 打牌 (dǎ pái).
More examples with 扑克牌
我会洗扑克牌。
我會洗撲克牌。
Wǒ huì xǐ pūkèpái.
I can shuffle the cards.
扑克牌有五十四张。
撲克牌有五十四張。
Pūkèpái yǒu wǔshísì zhāng.
A deck of cards has fifty-four cards.
How to write 扑克牌 in Chinese
Each box adds one stroke, in red. Write them in this order.
扑 5 strokes
克 7 strokes
牌 12 strokes
In Traditional characters:
撲 15 strokes
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