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笆

bā

Character

What 笆 means

1. an article made of bamboo strips
2. fence

Example sentences

• 我把篱笆漆成了绿色。
  I painted the fence green.
• 这栋房子的周围有篱笆。
  Zhè dòng fángzi de zhōuwéi yǒu líba.
  There is a fence around the house.
• 我父亲在花园边上装了篱笆。
  Wǒ fùqīn zài huāyuán biān shàngzhuāng le líba.
  My father put a fence around the garden.
• 我家和邻居家以院子之间的篱笆为分界线。
  Wǒ jiā hé línjū jiā yǐ yuànzi zhījiān de líba wèi fēnjièxiàn.
  There is a fence marking the boundary between our yard and the neighbor's.
• 我家院子和邻居家院子之间有一道篱笆做为分界线。.
  Wǒ jiā yuànzi hé línjū jiā yuànzi zhījiān yǒu yīdào líba zuòwéi fēnjièxiàn..
  There is a fence marking the boundary between our yard and the neighbor's.

Words starting with 笆

• 笆斗bā dǒuround-bottomed wicker basket
• 笆篱子bā lí zi(dialect) prison

Words containing 笆

• 篱笆lí bafence (esp. of bamboo or wood railings)
• 竹篱笆zhú lí bāfence

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
• 爸bàfather; dad; pa
• 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
• 琶pásee 琵琶, pipa lute

Characters that look like 笆

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

• 觉juéto feel; to find that; thinking
• 宪xiànstatute; constitution
• 党dǎngparty; association; club
• 冤yuāninjustice; grievance; wrong
• 笙shēngsheng, a free reed wind instrument with vertical bamboo pipes
• 笠lìbamboo rain hat

Sounds the same

Read bā, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 八eight
• 巴to long for; to wish; to cling to
• 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)…
• 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