巴 (bā)
To hope/to wish; suffix for things; bus (abbr.); surname Ba
How 巴 is written
- Strokes
- 4
- Radical
- 丨 — line
- Traditional
- 巴
- Simplified
- 巴 (unchanged)
Components
- 丨 line
- 乚 second
Common words using 巴
- 下巴 xiàba
- chin; CL:個|个[ge4]
- 嘴巴 zuǐba
- mouth; CL:張|张[zhang1]; slap in the face
- 大巴 dàbā
- a big coach; tourist bus
- 尾巴 wěiba
- tail
- 巴掌 bāzhǎng
- palm; hand
- 巴西 bāxī
- Brazil
- 巴黎 bālí
- Paris, capital of France
- 星巴克 xīngbākè
- Starbucks, US coffee shop chain
- 中巴 zhōngbā
- China-Pakistan (relations); China-Bahamas
- 古巴 gǔbā
- Cuba
- 啞巴 yǎba
- mute; muted; a dumb person
- 巴不得 bābùdé
- to be eager for; to long for; to look forward to
巴 in a sentence
他的嘴巴張得很大。
Tā de zuǐbā zhāng de hěn dà.
“His mouth is opened very wide.”
How common is 巴?
巴 is the 546th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 77.7% of all running text.
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