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

欧罗 ōu luó bā Europe
乌兰托 wū lán bā tuō Ulaanbaatar or Ulan Bator, capital of Mongolia
特立尼达和多哥 tè lì ní dá hé duō bā gē Trinidad and Tobago
萨 méng bā sà Mombasa (city in Kenya)
颏 xià ba kē chin
亚的斯亚贝 yà dì sī yà bèi bā Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia
卡尔拉 kǎ ěr bā lā Karbala (city in Iraq)
吃哑亏 chī yǎ ba kuī to be forced to suffer in silence; unable to speak of one's bitter suffering
基里斯 jī lǐ bā sī Kiribati (formerly the Gilbert Islands)
纳 mǔ bā bā nà Mbabane, capital of Swaziland
xiǎo bā minibus
勒莫 bā lè mò Palermo, Italy
士海峡 bā shì hǎi xiá Bashi Channel in the northern part of the Luzon Strait, just south of Taiwan
扎 bā zhā bazaar (loanword)
东 bā dōng Badong county in Enshi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州[En1 shi1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Hubei
格兰 bā gé lán Baghlan province of north Afghanistan
甫洛夫 bā fǔ luò fū Pavlov (name); Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), Russian experimental psychologist
西利亚 bā xī lì yà Brasilia, capital of Brazil
马科 bā mǎ kē Bamako, capital of Mali
曼尼托 màn ní tuō bā Manitoba, province of Canada
jǐn bā bā tight fitting; hard up (i.e. lacking money)
翘尾 qiào wěi ba to be cocky
葫芦 hú lú bā fenugreek leaves; methi leaves
威 xīn bā wēi Zimbabwe (Tw)
一个掌拍不响 yī ge bā zhǎng pāi bù xiǎng lit. one palm alone cannot clap (proverb); fig. it takes two persons to start a dispute; it takes two to tango; it's difficult to achieve anything without support