趴
pā
ㄆㄚ
- 1to lie on one's stomach
- 2to lean forward, resting one's upper body (on a desktop etc)
- 3(Tw) percent (from Japanese "pā", short for "pāsento")
In Taiwan
Also "percent" in speech, borrowed via Japanese: 三十趴 is thirty percent. Common in conversation and headlines, informal in writing.
Example
現在的房貸利率只有兩趴。
xiànzài de fángdài lìlǜ zhǐyǒu liǎng pā
Mortgage rates are only two percent right now.