巴 ba

greatly desire, anxiously hope

HSK 5 #546

DEFINITIONS

巴 bā
  • Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan)
  • abbr. for east Sichuan or Chongqing
  • surname Ba
  • abbr. for Palestine or Palestinian
  • abbr. for Pakistan
  • 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[ba1 shi4]
  • bar (unit of pressure)
  • nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail

STROKES

WORDS

尾巴 wěi ba
HSK 5
tail; colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5]
巴不得 bā bu de
HSK 6
(coll.) to be eager for; to long for; to look forward to
巴结 bā jie
HSK 6
to fawn on; to curry favor with; to make up to
巴黎 bā lí Paris, capital of France
嘴巴 zuǐ ba mouth; CL:張|张[zhang1]; slap in the face; CL:個|个[ge4]
古巴 gǔ bā Cuba
巴斯 bā sī Bath city in southwest England
巴西 bā xī Brazil
巴士 bā shì bus (loanword); motor coach
下巴 xià ba chin; CL:個|个[ge4]
巴基斯坦 bā jī sī tǎn Pakistan
巴库 bā kù Baku, capital of Azerbaijan
巴里 bā lǐ Bari (Puglia, Italy)
乡巴佬 xiāng bā lǎo (derog.) villager; hick; bumpkin
阿尔巴尼亚 ā ěr bā ní yà Albania
巴特 bā tè Barth or Barthes (name); Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French critic and semiotician
巴尔的摩 bā ěr dì mó Baltimore (place name, surname etc)
巴掌 bā zhang palm of the hand; classifier: slap
巴格达 bā gé dá Baghdad, capital of Iraq
巴拿马 bā ná mǎ Panama
哑巴 yǎ ba mute; muted; a dumb person; to be dumb
伦巴 lún bā rumba (loanword)
巴比伦 bā bǐ lún Babylon
斯巴达 sī bā dá Sparta
泥巴 ní bā mud
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