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耙

bà

Character

What 耙 means

1. a hoe
2. to harrow

Other readings

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

• páa rake

Words starting with 耙

• 耙地bà dìto harrow; to break the ground with a hoe
• 耙子pá zia rake
• 耙耳朵pā ěr duo(dialect) henpecked; to be under one's wife's thumb

Words containing 耙

• 粪耙fèn pámanure rake
• 草耙cǎo páa rake
• 钉耙dīng párake
• 木齿耙mù chǐ páa rake (with wooden teeth)
• 耲耙huái bàa kind of harrow used in north-east China to cultivate or sow; Taiwan pr. huái pá
• 九齿钉耙jiǔ chǐ dīng páThe Nine-Toothed Rake (weapon of Zhu Bajie 猪八戒
• 倒打一耙dào dǎ yī pálit. to strike with a muckrake (idiom), cf Pigsy 猪八戒 in Journey to the West 西游记…

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
• 笆bāan article made of bamboo strips; fence

Characters that look like 耙

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

• 起qǐto rise; to raise; to get up
• 配pèito join; to fit; to mate
• 射shèto shoot; to launch; to allude to
• 跄qiāngwalk rapidly
• 钯bǎpalladium (chemistry); Taiwan pr. bā
• 粑bāa round flat cake (dialect)

Sounds the same

Read bà, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 爸father; dad; pa
• 罢to stop; to cease; to dismiss
• 霸hegemon; tyrant; lord
• 坝(used in place names) plain; flatland; (dialect) sandbar; shoal
• 把handle
• 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