babiā

emphatic final particle

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

巴 sound component

  Sound component

  

to wish

Definitions

 

ba

emphatic final particle; (modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise); ...right?; ...OK?; ...I presume.

 

bar (loanword) (serving drinks, or providing Internet access etc); to puff (on a pipe etc); (onom.) bang; abbr. for 貼吧|贴吧[tiē​bā]

 

biā

(onom.) smack!

Most common words with 吧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

...OK?

酒吧

bar

网吧

Internet café

吧台

counter of a bar (pub)

吧唧

(onom.) squishing sound

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 99.9199% of movies

40th most common character in movies

470th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+5427


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