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巴仙

bā xiān

2-character word

What 巴仙 means

1. (Singapore) (loanword) percent

The characters in 巴仙

• 巴bāto long for; to wish; to cling to
• 仙xiānimmortal

Example sentences

• 今个月的钢铁产量和上个月比起来，估计会上升两个巴仙。
  Jīn gè yuè de gāngtiě chǎnliàng hé shànggèyuè bǐqǐ lái, gūjì huì shàngshēng liǎng gè bāxiān.
  Steel production will increase 2% this month from last month.

Sounds the same

Read bā xiān, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 八仙the Eight Immortals (Daoist mythology)
• 巴先(Singapore) (loanword) percent