罷 (bà)
to stop; to cease; strike
How 罷 is written
- Strokes
- 15
- Radical
- 罒 — net
- Traditional
- 罷
- Simplified
- 罢
Components
- 罒 net
- 厶 private
- 月 moon
罷 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- bà
- to stop; to cease; to dismiss; to suspend
- ba
- (final particle, same as 吧)
Common words using 罷
- 罷了 bàle
- a modal particle indicating (that's all, only, nothing much)
- 作罷 zuòbà
- to drop (subject etc)
- 欲罷不能 yùbàbùnéng
- want to stop but can't (idiom, from Analects); find it impossible to give up
- 罷休 bàxiū
- to give up; to abandon (a goal etc); to let sth go
- 罷工 bàgōng
- a strike; to go on strike
- 也罷 yěbà
- (reduplicated) whether... or...; never mind; fine (indicating acceptance or resignation)
- 善罷甘休 shànbàgānxiū
- to leave the matter at that; to be prepared to let go; to be willing to take things lying down
- 罷免 bàmiǎn
- to remove sb from their post; to dismiss
- 罷市 bàshì
- protest strike by merchants
- 罷手 bàshǒu
- to give up
- 罷課 bàkè
- student's strike
- 罷黜 bàchù
- to dismiss from office; to ban; to reject
罷 in a sentence
工會決定明天開始罷工。
Gōnghuì juédìng míngtiān kāishǐ bàgōng.
“The union decided to go on strike starting tomorrow.”
How common is 罷?
罷 is the 1,303rd most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 92.9% of all running text.
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