巴
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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
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- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 己 +1
- Structure
- Overlaid 叠加
- Traditional
- 巴
- Common rank
- #90
- Unicode
- U+5DF4
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How 巴 is formed
How to remember it
crust · Heisig RSH #1326
— as a component also called: mosaic
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 巴
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 巴中市 | Bazhong, prefecture-level city in Sichuan Province 四川省[Si4 chuan1 Sheng3] | |
| 巴马县 | see 巴馬瑤族自治縣|巴马瑶族自治县[Ba1 ma3 Yao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] | |
| 拉巴斯 | La Paz, administrative capital of Bolivia | |
| 大巴 | (coll.) large bus; coach; (abbr. for 大型巴士) | |
| 巴县 | Ba county in Chongqing 重慶市|重庆市, Sichuan | |
| 巴斯特尔 | Basseterre, capital of Saint Kitts and Nevis | |
| 巴山 | Mt Ba in eastern Sichuan | |
| 巴克斯 | Bacchus, Greek god of wine | |
| 巴斯克 | Basque; the Basque Country | |
| 中巴 | China-Pakistan (relations); China-Bahamas | |
| 中巴 | minibus | |
| 巴中 | see 巴中市[Ba1 zhong1 Shi4] | |
| 巴生 | Klang (city in Malaysia) | |
| 巴斯 | Bath city in southwest England | |
| 巴拉克 | Barack, Barak, Ballack (name) | |
| 亚拉巴马 | Alabama, US state | |
| 巴拉巴斯 | Barabbas (in the Biblical passion story) | |
| 巴马 | see 巴馬瑤族自治縣|巴马瑶族自治县[Ba1 ma3 Yao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 xian4] | |
| 下里巴人 | folk songs of the state of Chu 楚國|楚国[Chu3 guo2]; popular art forms (contrasted with 陽春白雪|阳… | |
| 小巴 | minibus |
Sound family
These characters use 巴 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 巴 sound part | to desire, to wish for | |
| 把 | to grasp, to hold; to guard, to take; handle | |
| 肥 | fat, plump, obese; fertile | |
| 爬 | to climb, to scramble; to crawl, to creep | |
| 吧 | emphatic final particle | |
| 芭 | a plantain or banana palm | |
| 爸 | father, papa | |
| 靶 | target, mark | |
| 耙 | to rake | |
| 疤 | scar, cicatrix; birthmark | |
| 琶 | a guitar-like instrument (2) | |
| 笆 | bamboo fence | |
| 杷 | loquat tree; axe handle | |
| 粑 | tsamba, flat rice cake | |
| 钯 | palladium | |
| 鲃 | shark; bonito | |
| 岜 | rocky mountain |