巴
Ancient forms
2 formsGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
bā ba1
- 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 bā shì
- bar (unit of pressure)
- nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴 wěi ba, tail
- Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan)
- the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality
- surname Ba
- (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦 Bā lè sī tǎn (Palestine), 巴基斯坦 Bā jī sī tǎn (Pakistan) or 巴西 Bā xī (Brazil)
Example sentences
- His job is driving a sight-seeing bus.