ba

noun suffix; to stick to; bus

HSK 5 #546

Character data

HSK 5
Frequency 546th character
Radical ⼰ (49.1)
Strokes 4
Index # 178

Definitions

巴 bā
  1. 1. nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as wěi ba, tail
  2. 2. to cling to
  3. 3. to stick to
  4. 4. close to
  5. 5. next to
  6. 6. to long for
  7. 7. to wish
  8. 8. informal abbr. for bus bā shì
  9. 9. surname Ba
  10. 10. abbr. for east Sichuan or Chongqing
  11. 11. abbr. for Pakistan
  12. 12. abbr. for Palestine or Palestinian
  13. 13. spread open
  14. 14. sth that sticks
  15. 15. bar (unit of pressure)
  16. 16. Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan)

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Words containing 巴

Word Meaning
tail; colloquial pr. yǐ ba
(coll.) to be eager for; to long for; to look forward to
to curry favor with; to fawn on; to make up to
Paris, capital of France
mouth; slap in the face
Cuba
Bath city in southwest England
Brazil
bus (loanword); motor coach
chin
Pakistan
Baku, capital of Azerbaijan
Bari (Puglia, Italy)
bumpkin; hick; (derog.) villager
Albania
Barth or Barthes (name)
Baltimore (place name, surname etc)
palm of the hand; classifier: slap
Baghdad, capital of Iraq
Panama
mute; a dumb person; muted
rumba (loanword)
Babylon
Sparta
mud
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