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跋

bá

Character

What 跋 means

1. postscript
2. to trek across mountains

Words starting with 跋

• 跋涉bá shèto trudge; to trek
• 跋扈bá hùdomineering; bossy
• 跋杯bá bēi(Taiwan) (folk religion) to divine by casting moon blocks 筊杯
• 跋语bá yǔshort comment or critical appraisal added at the end of a text, on a painting etc
• 跋山涉水bá shān shè shuǐto travel over land and water (idiom)
• 跋胡疐尾bá hú zhì wěi(idiom, from Book of Songs) unable to advance or retreat
• 跋前踬后bá qián zhì hòusee 跋胡疐尾
• 跋前疐后bá qián zhì hòusee 跋胡疐尾

Words containing 跋

• 长途跋涉cháng tú bá shèlong and difficult trek
• 序跋xù bápreface and postscript
• 拓跋Tuò bábranch of the Xianbei 鲜卑 nomadic people, founders of Wei 北魏 of the Northern Dynasties…
• 题跋tí báshort comments; preface and postscript
• 拓跋魏Tuò bá WèiWei of the Northern Dynasties (386-534)
• 嚣张跋扈xiāo zhāng bá hùarrogant and despotic
• 飞扬跋扈fēi yáng bá hùbossy and domineering; throwing one's weight about

Characters built on 犮

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

• 拔báto pull up; to pull out; to draw out by suction
• 鲅bà(bound form) Spanish mackerel
• 魃bádrought demon
• 茇bábetel

Characters that look like 跋

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

• 援yuánto help; to assist; to aid
• 徙xǐ(literary) to change one's residence
• 揪jiūto seize; to clutch; to grab firmly and pull
• 跛bǒto limp; lame; crippled
• 敝bìmy (polite); poor; ruined
• 暄xuāngenial and warm

Sounds the same

Read bá, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 拔to pull up; to pull out; to draw out by suction
• 菝used in 菝葜
• 魃drought demon
• 妭(literary) beautiful woman; old variant of 魃
• 軷sacrifice
• 茇betel
• 犮old variant of 拔