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
Balkan
Balkan Peninsula
Balzac, French novelist
Baltimore (place name, surname etc)
(Charlene) Barshefsky, US trade negotiator
(Charlene) Barshefsky, US trade negotiator
Batna, town in eastern Algeria
Batna, town in eastern Algeria
Klang (city in Malaysia)
German state in southwest; capital Stuttgart
Baden-Württemberg, state in southwest Germany
to curry favor with; to fawn on; to make up to
Ba county in Chongqing chóng qìng shì, Sichuan
Ba county in Chongqing chóng qìng shì, Sichuan
Barroso, former EU Commission president
José Manuel Barroso, EU Commission head
baroque (period in Western art history) (loanword)
Paya Lebar, a place in Singapore (GM)
Ba Maw
Barca (nickname for FC Barcelona)
Barca (nickname for FC Barcelona)
Sichuan; originally two provinces of Qin and Han