巴 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 尾巴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 巴士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
欧罗巴 ōu luó bā
Europe
乌兰巴托 wū lán bā tuō
Ulaanbaatar or Ulan Bator, capital of Mongolia
特立尼达和多巴哥 tè lì ní dá hé duō bā gē
Trinidad and Tobago
蒙巴萨 méng bā sà
Mombasa (city in Kenya)
下巴颏 xià ba kē
chin
亚的斯亚贝巴 yà dì sī yà bèi bā
Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia
卡尔巴拉 kǎ ěr bā lā
Karbala (city in Iraq)
吃哑巴亏 chī yǎ ba kuī
to be forced to suffer in silence
基里巴斯 jī lǐ bā sī
Kiribati (formerly the Gilbert Islands)
姆巴巴纳 mǔ bā bā nà
Mbabane, capital of Swaziland
小巴 xiǎo bā
minibus
巴勒莫 bā lè mò
Palermo, Italy
巴士海峡 bā shì hǎi xiá
Bashi Channel south of Taiwan
巴扎 bā zhā
bazaar (loanword)
巴东 bā dōng
Badong, a county in Hubei, China
巴格兰 bā gé lán
Baghlan province of north Afghanistan
巴甫洛夫 bā fǔ luò fū
Pavlov (name)
巴西利亚 bā xī lì yà
Brasilia, capital of Brazil
巴马科 bā mǎ kē
Bamako, capital of Mali
曼尼托巴 màn ní tuō bā
Manitoba, province of Canada
紧巴巴 jǐn bā bā
hard up (i.e. lacking money); tight fitting
翘尾巴 qiào wěi ba
to be cocky
葫芦巴 hú lú bā
fenugreek leaves; methi leaves
辛巴威 xīn bā wēi
Zimbabwe (Tw)
一个巴掌拍不响 yī ge bā zhǎng pāi bù xiǎng
fig. it takes two persons to start a dispute
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