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爸

bà

Old HSK 1 HSK 3.0 character level 1 Character

What 爸 means

1. father
2. dad
3. pa
4. papa

Example sentences

• 你爸呢？
  How about your father?
• 我爱我爸妈
  Wǒ ài wǒ bàmā
  I love my parents.
• 爸爸在哪？
  Where's Daddy?
• 我爸种水稻。
  Wǒ bà zhǒng shuǐdào.
  My father grows rice.
• 你爸爸很高。
  Your father is tall.
• 我爸爸很忙。
  My father is busy.

Words starting with 爸

• 爸爸bà ba(colloquial) father; dad
• 爸妈bà mādad and mom
• 爸比bǎ bí(loanword) daddy

Words containing 爸

• 老爸lǎo bàfather; dad
• 阿爸ā bà(dialect) father
• 后爸hòu bà(colloquial) stepfather
• 亲爸qīn bàone's own father; biological father
• 阿爸父Ā bà fùAbba (Aramaic word father); by ext. God the Father in Christian gospel
• 宝爸bǎo bàa dad (father of a young child)
• 奶爸nǎi bàstay-at-home dad
• 兔爸tù bàtoolbar (in computer software) (loanword)

Characters built on 巴

These share the phonetic component 巴 (bā), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 吧ba(modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise); ...right?; ...OK?
• 把bǎto hold; to grasp; to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate; handlebar
• 爬páto crawl; to climb; to get up or sit up
• 芭bāan unidentified fragrant plant mentioned in the Songs of Chu 楚辞; used in 芭蕉…
• 疤bāscar; scab
• 靶bǎtarget; mark
• 笆bāan article made of bamboo strips; fence
• 琶pásee 琵琶, pipa lute

Characters that look like 爸

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

• 亲qīnparent; one's own (flesh and blood); relative
• 若ruòto seem; like; as
• 苗miáosprout
• 秉bǐngto grasp; to hold; to maintain
• 奄yǎnsuddenly; abruptly; hastily
• 苞bāobud; flower calyx; luxuriant

Sounds the same

Read bà, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 罢to stop; to cease; to dismiss
• 霸hegemon; tyrant; lord
• 坝(used in place names) plain; flatland; (dialect) sandbar; shoal
• 把handle
• 耙a hoe; to harrow
• 灞name of a river
• 杷handle or shaft (of an axe etc); hoe; to harrow
• 弝the part of a bow grasped when shooting
• 鲅(bound form) Spanish mackerel
• 猈dog with short shinbone
• 伯variant of 霸
• 欛variant of 杷; variant of 把

Where 爸 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 1 Characters · Set 12 (HSK 1), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 1 word, with the rest of its level.
• How characters are built from components.
• How to learn Chinese characters.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read bà correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.