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巴
Bā
1. Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan)
2. abbr. for east Sichuan or Chongqing
3. surname Ba
4. abbr. for Palestine or Palestinian
5. abbr. for Pakistan
Very Common • Top 0% ✏️ 4 strokes Noun

Character Breakdown (Single character)

巴
bā
to desire, to wish for
HSK 5 4 丶

Compound Words (20)

巴斯
Bāsī
Bath city in southwest England
巴西
Bāxī
Brazil
巴士
bāshì
bus (loanword)
巴斗
bādǒu
round-bottomed wicker basket
巴特
Bātè
Barth or Barthes (name)
巴蜀
Bāshǔ
Sichuan
巴哥
bāgē
pug (breed of dog)
巴塘
Bātáng
Batang county (Tibetan: 'ba' thang rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture [[甘孜藏族自治州<GānzīZàngzúzìzhìzhōu>]], Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)
巴彦
Bāyàn
Bayan county in Harbin [[哈爾濱|哈尔滨<Hāěrbīn>]], Heilongjiang
巴掌
bāzhǎng
palm
巴松
bāsōng
bassoon (loanword)
巴尔
Bāěr
Baltic
巴结
bājie
to fawn on
HSK 6
巴萨
Bāsà
Barca (nickname for FC Barcelona)
巴厘
Bālí
Bali (island province of Indonesia)
巴哈
Bāhā
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer (Tw)
仲巴
Zhòngbā
Zhongba county, Tibetan: 'Brong pa rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
巴唧
bāji
variant of [[吧唧<bāji>]]
巴州
Bāzhōu
East Sichuan and Chongqing
巴库
Bākù
Baku, capital of Azerbaijan

Alternate Entries

巴
bā
to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus [[巴士<bāshì>]] / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as [[尾巴<wěiba>]], tail

Metadata

Category
Chinese
HSK Character Level
5
Character Frequency Rank
545
Word Frequency Rank
282 of 84,292