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
Starbucks, US coffee shop chain
Barbara (name)
(coll.) large bus; coach; (abbr. for 大型巴士)
Sebastian (name)
The Bahamas
samba (dance) (loanword)
to stutter
Lebanon
Palestine
Barcelona
lymph (loanword); lymphatic
Bavaria
Ba Jin (1904-2005), novelist, author of the trilogy jiā, chūn, qiū
Valencia, Spain
Paraguay
extremely; (suffix) very
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer
Albanian (person)
La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia
Bacchus, Greek god of wine
Bali (island in Indonesia)
wrinkled; crumpled; unironed
Zanzibar
lymphatic node; lymph gland
dry; dull; insipid