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巴

bā

bā · baa1 (Jyutping)

  1. Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan)
  2. the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality
  3. (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Ba1 le4 si1 tan3] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Ba1 ji1 si1 tan3] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Ba1 xi1] (Brazil)
  4. to long for
  5. to wish
  6. to cling to
  7. to stick to
  8. sth that sticks
  9. close to
  10. next to
  11. spread open
  12. informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4]
  13. bar (unit of pressure)
  14. nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail
  15. surname Ba

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

巴

Meaning
greatly desire, anxiously hope
Radical
巳
Strokes
4
Components
⿻巳?
Cangjie
AU
Four-corner
7771.7

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