霸
Ancient forms
3 formsGlyphs: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.
Meaning
bà ba4
- hegemon
- tyrant
- lord
- feudal chief
- to rule by force
- to usurp
- (in modern advertising) master
Example sentences
- tíngzhǐ 停止 bàlíng 霸凌 ！Stop bullying.
- This battle left Napoleon master of Europe.
HSK words with 霸
More words with 霸
- 学霸 xuébà (slang) straight-A student; academic prodigy
- 霸机 bàjī (of passengers) to stage a sit-in after the plane has landed (as a protest against bad service etc) (Tw)
- 霸气 bàqì imperious; aggressive; assertive
- 霸主 bàzhǔ a powerful chief of the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC)
- 路霸 lùbà brigand
- 制霸 zhìbà to reign supreme; to dominate (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 制霸 "seiha")
- 霸业 bàyè the task of establishing and maintaining hegemony
- 波霸 bōbà (slang) (loanword) big boobs
- 霸王 bàwáng hegemon
- 霸权 bàquán hegemony