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

多斯 bā bā duō sī Barbados
洛克 bā luò kè baroque (loanword)
戈尔乔夫 gē ěr bā qiáo fū Gorbachev; Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931-), last president of the Soviet Union 1991-1995
狗 hǎ bā gǒu pekingese (dog); (fig.) sycophant; lackey
奥尔尼 ào ěr bā ní Albany, New York
布韦 jīn bā bù wéi Zimbabwe
结结 jiē jiē bā ba stammeringly
登 bā dēng Baden (region in Germany)
尔干半岛 bā ěr gàn bàn dǎo Balkan Peninsula
尔扎克 bā ěr zhā kè Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), French novelist, author of series La comédie humaine
细胞 lín bā xì bāo lymphocyte
亚拉马 yà lā bā mǎ Alabama, US state
拉克 bā lā kè Barack, Barak, Ballack (name)
林 bā lín Bahrain
狐狸尾 hú li wěi ba lit. fox's tail (idiom); visible sign of evil intentions; to reveal one's evil nature; evidence that reveals the villain
guō bā guoba (scorched rice at the bottom of the pan)
可怜 kě lián bā bā pathetic; pitiful
阿里 ā lǐ bā bā Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights; Alibaba, PRC e-commerce company
亚拉马州 yà lā bā mǎ zhōu Alabama, US state
利 bā lì Pali, language of Theravad Pali canon; Barry (name); Gareth Barry (1981-), English footballer
yán bā table salt
士拉 bā shì lā Basra (city in Iraq)
yǎn bā bā waiting anxiously; impatient
喀尔阡山脉 kā ěr bā qiān shān mài Carpathian Mountains, 1500-km mountain range in Central and Eastern Europe
拿马城 bā ná mǎ chéng Panama City