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)

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Words containing 巴

Word Meaning
Taiwanese yokel (derog.)
to be forced to suffer in silence
jitterbug (loanword)
Kiribati (formerly the Gilbert Islands) (Tw)
jitterbug (loanword)
jitterbug (loanword)
Qiangba Puncog, former Tibet leader
Habahe County in Xinjiang
Habahe County in Altay, Xinjiang
Habahe County in Altay, Xinjiang
Khabarovsk, city in far east Russia
Khabarovsk, city in far east Russia
Book of Habakkuk
Book of Habakkuk
Haba Snow Mountain in Yunnan
the Goldbach conjecture in number theory
Kota Bharu, city in northeast Malaysia
Kota Bharu, city in northeast Malaysia
mute; a dumb person; muted
no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)
no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)
no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)
no choice but to suffer in silence (idiom)
to be forced to suffer in silence (idiom)
to be forced to suffer in silence (idiom)