Chinese Character Wiki
巴

bā

to wish

Depicts a person grabbing something with their hand. Original form of 把. In modern Chinese this character is usually used only for its sound.

Evolution

巴 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
巴 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
巴 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
巴 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

巴  

bā

greatly desire, anxiously hope; 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

巴  

Bā

Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan); abbr. for east Sichuan or Chongqing; surname Ba; abbr. for Palestine or Palestinian; abbr. for Pakistan

Most common words with 巴
Freq.
Word
Meaning

巴

to wish

巴黎

Paris, capital of France

巴西

Brazil

嘴巴

mouth

古巴

Cuba

Component uses

Sound component in 18 characters (4 verified)

把 吧 爸 爬 疤 芭 靶 琶 笆 耙 粑 杷 䰾 鲃 鈀 钯 岜 皅

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*pˤra

pae

bā

snake

*pˤra

pae

bā

[place name]


Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 52.5068% of movies

474th most common character in movies

546th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Unicode

U+5DF4

Shuowen

“巴，蟲也。或曰食象蛇。象形。”


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