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)

Stroke order

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Words containing 巴

Word Meaning
wrinkled; crumpled; unironed
not speaking fluently; stammering; stuttering
same as xī làn
same as xī làn
Hosni Mubarak, former president of Egypt
Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-), president of Kazakhstan
Nursultan Nazarbayev (1940-), president of Kazakhstan
to stutter
stammeringly
same as jǐn bā bā; tight (i.e. lacking money); hard up
same as jǐn bā bā; tight (i.e. lacking money); hard up
hard up (i.e. lacking money); tight fitting
Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician
Lobachevsky, Russian math scientist
America and Pakistan; America and Brazil
to be cocky
well-behaved; (coll.) docile; biddable
lit. rat's tail; fig. a follower of inferior stature
fenugreek
fenugreek
cheek
cheek
Cuba Libre