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巴

bā

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 character level 4 Character

What 巴 means

1. to long for
2. to wish
3. to cling to
4. to stick to
5. sth that sticks
6. close to
7. next to
8. spread open
9. informal abbr. for bus {巴士|bā shì}
10. bar (unit of pressure)
11. nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as {尾巴|wěi ba}, tail

Other readings

巴 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• BāBa, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sich

Example sentences

• 别结巴！
  Don't stutter!
• 我在结巴。
  Wǒ zài jiēba.
  I am stuttering.
• 上巴士吧。
  Let's get on the bus.
• 吸我的鸡巴。
  Xī wǒ de jība.
  Suck my dick.
• 巴黎在哪里？
  Where is Paris?
• 巴士还没来。
  The bus hasn't come yet.

Words starting with 巴

• 巴不得bā bu de(colloquial) to be eager for; to long for; to look forward to
• 巴结bā jieto fawn on; to curry favor with; to make up to
• 巴黎Bā líParis, capital of France
• 巴金Bā JīnBa Jin (1904–2005), novelist, author of the trilogy 家春秋
• 巴西Bā xīBrazil
• 巴士bā shìbus (loanword); motor coach
• 巴勒斯坦Bā lè sī tǎnPalestine
• 巴掌bā zhangpalm of the hand; classifier: slap
• 巴基斯坦Bā jī sī tǎnPakistan
• 巴格达Bā gé dáBaghdad, capital of Iraq
• 巴赫Bā hèJohann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer
• 巴巴bā bā(suffix) very; extremely
• 巴塞罗那Bā sài luó nàBarcelona, Spain
• 巴林Bā línBahrain
• 巴萨Bā sàBarca (nickname for FC Barcelona); Baza (town in Grenada, Spain)
• 巴拿马Bā ná mǎPanama
• 巴尔扎克Bā ěr zhā kèHonoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine
• 巴黎圣母院Bā lí Shèng mǔ yuànNotre-Dame Cathedral (Paris, France)
• 巴比伦Bā bǐ lúnBabylon
• 巴伐利亚Bā fá lì yàBavaria
• 巴山Bā shānMt Ba in eastern Sichuan
• 巴洛克bā luò kèbaroque (loanword)
• 巴蜀Bā shǔSichuan; originally two provinces of Qin and Han
• 巴望bā wàngto look forward to

Words containing 巴

• 尾巴wěi batail; colloquial pr. yǐ ba
• 嘴巴zuǐ bamouth; slap in the face
• 下巴xià bachin
• 大巴dà bā(colloquial) large bus; coach; (abbr. for 大型巴士)
• 哑巴yǎ baa mute; mute; silent
• 古巴Gǔ bāCuba
• 阿里巴巴Ā lǐ Bā bāAli Baba, character from The Arabian Nights
• 黎巴嫩Lí bā nènLebanon
• 结结巴巴jiē jiē bā bastammeringly
• 泥巴ní ba(colloquial) mud
• 结巴jiē bato stutter
• 鸡巴jī badick; penis (vulgar)
• 眼巴巴yǎn bā bāwaiting anxiously; impatient
• 眨巴zhǎ bato blink; to wink
• 可怜巴巴kě lián bā bāpathetic; pitiful
• 戈尔巴乔夫Gē ěr bā qiáo fūGorbachev; Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931–2022), last president of the Soviet Union…
• 阿巴斯Ā bā sīMahmoud Abbas (1935–), Palestinian politician, president of the Palestinian National…
• 皱巴巴zhòu bā bāwrinkled; crumpled; unironed
• 干巴巴gān bā bādry; parched; dull
• 中巴zhōng bāminibus
• 哈巴狗hǎ bā gǒupekingese (dog); (fig.) sycophant; lackey
• 阿尔巴尼亚Ā ěr bā ní yàAlbania
• 老实巴交lǎo shi bā jiāo(colloquial) docile; well-behaved; biddable
• 津巴布韦Jīn bā bù wéiZimbabwe

Characters that look like 巴

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 已yǐalready; to stop; then
• 己jǐself; oneself; sixth of the ten Heavenly Stems 十天干
• 巳sì6th earthly branch: 9-11 a.m., 4th solar month (5th May-5th June), year of the Snake…

Sounds the same

Read bā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 八eight
• 叭denote a sound or sharp noise (gunfire etc)
• 扒to peel; to skin; to tear
• 疤scar; scab
• 芭an unidentified fragrant plant mentioned in the Songs of Chu 楚辞; used in 芭蕉…
• 吧bar (loanword) (serving drinks, or providing Internet access etc)…
• 笆an article made of bamboo strips; fence
• 峇(used in transliteration)
• 粑a round flat cake (dialect)
• 鲃used in 鲃鱼
• 〨numeral 8 in the Suzhou numeral system 苏州码子
• 丷"eight" component in Chinese characters; old variant of 八

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
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