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

kāng bā Khampa, subdivision of Tibetan ethnic group; former Tibetan province of Kham, now split between Tibet and Sichuan
特 lā bā tè Rabat, capital of Morocco
哈 bā hā Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), German composer (Tw)
塞隆纳 bā sài lóng nà Barcelona (Tw)
解组织 bā jiě zǔ zhī Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO); abbr. for 巴勒斯坦解放組織|巴勒斯坦解放组织[Ba1 le4 si1 tan3 Jie3 fang4 Zu3 zhi1]
阿米 ā mǐ bā amoeba (loanword)
塞尔 bā sāi ěr Basel, Switzerland
布亚新几内亚 bā bù yà xīn jǐ nèi yà Papua New Guinea
望 bā wàng to look forward to
尔干 bā ěr gàn Balkan
祖卡 bā zǔ kǎ bazooka (loanword)
zhǎ ba to blink; to wink
顿 méng bā dùn Mountbatten (name, Anglicization of German Battenberg); Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900-1979), British commander in Southeast Asia during WWII, presided over the partition of India in 1947, murdered by the IRA.
拉契亚 ā bā lā qì yà Appalachian Mountains in North America
下里人 xià lǐ bā rén folk songs of the state of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 guo2]; popular art forms (cf. 陽春白雪|阳春白雪[yang2 chun1 bai2 xue3], highbrow art forms)
罗克 bā luó kè baroque (period in Western art history) (loanword)
豆 bā dòu croton (Croton tiglium), evergreen bush of Euphorbiaceae family 大戟科[da4 ji3 ke1]; croton seed, a strong purgative
腺 lín bā xiàn lymph node; lymphatic gland
老实交 lǎo shi bā jiāo (coll.) docile; well-behaved; biddable
克莱 bā kè lái Barclay or Berkeley (name)
别塔 bā bié tǎ Tower of Babel, in Genesis 11:5-foll.
哈伊 bā hā yī Baha'i (religion)
宝莉 bā bǎo lì Burberry (brand)
贝多 bā bèi duō Barbados, Caribbean island (Tw)
桑 ōu ba sāng older female; woman of mature years (Japanese loanword)