Chinese Character Wiki
爸

bà

father

Phonosemantic compound. 父 represents the meaning and 巴 represents the sound.

Components
父 meaning component

父  Meaning component

fù

  

father

巴 sound component

巴  Sound component

bā

  

to wish

Definitions

爸  

bà

father, papa; father; dad; pa; papa

Most common words with 爸
Freq.
Word
Meaning

爸爸

(informal) father

爸

dad

阿爸

Abba (Aramaic word father)

Statistics

HSK level 1

Appears in 69.2936% of movies

158th most common character in movies

1050th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+7238


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