啪

啪 (Kangxi radical 30, 口+8, 11 strokes, cangjie input 口手竹日 (RQHA), four-corner 6600₀, composition ⿰口拍)

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 196, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 636, character 4
• Unihan data for U+556A

(Cantonese) to take (a medicine or drug)

See 啪針 / 啪针 (paak¹ zam¹).

啪

1. (onomatopoeia) pop; pow
2. (neologism, slang) synonym of 啪啪啪 (pāpāpā, “plap; to have sex”)
3. (Cantonese) to take (a medicine or drug)

   啪嘢   ―  paak¹ je⁵   ―  (euphemistic) to take drugs

   啪咗粒止痛藥
   啪咗粒止痛药

   paak¹ zo² lap¹ zi² tung³ joek⁶

   to have taken a painkiller

4. (Cantonese) to eat quickly

   啪隻蕉／啪只蕉   ―  paak¹ zek³ ziu¹   ―  to eat a banana

5. (Cantonese) to break apart something in a snappy manner

   啪開／啪开   ―  paak¹ hoi¹   ―  to snap open (a mechanism which snaps apart)

   啪斷／啪断   ―  paak¹ tyun²   ―  to snap into two pieces (usually something narrow and thin)

6. (Cantonese) to make a snapping sound

   啪手指   ―  paak¹ sau² zi²   ―  to crack one's finger or knuckles

啪

1. (Cantonese, slang) to execute by firing squad

• “啪”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–