霸
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hegemon; tyrant; lord; feudal chief; to rule by force; to usurp; (in modern advertising) master
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 21
- Radical
- 雨 +13
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 霸
- Common rank
- #1,364
- Unicode
- U+9738
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Formation & memory
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Words with 霸
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 霸权主义 | hegemonism | |
| 独霸一方 | to exercise sole hegemony (idiom); to dominate a whole area (market, resources etc); to ho… | |
| 霸州市 | Bazhou, a county-level city in Langfang City 廊坊市[Lang2 fang2 Shi4], Hebei | |
| 横行霸道 | to oppress; to rule as a despot; to tyrannize | |
| 星海争霸 | StarCraft (video game series) (Tw) | |
| 巨无霸指数 | Big Mac Index, a measure of the purchasing power parity (PPP) between currencies | |
| 金霸王 | Duracell (US brand of batteries etc) | |
| 巨无霸汉堡包指数 | Big Mac Index, a measure of the purchasing power parity (PPP) between currencies | |
| 霸王龙 | Tyrannosaurus rex | |
| 爱词霸 | iCIBA, online dictionary by Kingsoft | |
| 霸王树 | Madagascar palm (Pachypodium lamerei) | |
| 星际争霸 | StarCraft (video game series) | |
| 霸王条款 | (law) unfair clause; unequal clause | |
| 霸县 | Ba county in Tianjin | |
| 春秋五霸 | the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC), namely: Duke Huan of Qi 齊桓… | |
| 学霸 | (slang) straight-A student; academic prodigy | |
| 街头霸王 | Street Fighter (video game series) | |
| 霸机 | (of passengers) to stage a sit-in after the plane has landed (as a protest against bad ser… | |
| 霸气 | imperious; aggressive; assertive; dictatorial manner; boldness (CL:股[gu3]) | |
| 霸主 | a powerful chief of the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC); overlord; he… |
Sound family
These characters use 霸 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 霸 sound part | tyrant; to usurp, to rule by might | |
| 灞 | a river in Shanxi province |