Components
白 meaning component

  Meaning component

bái

  

white

white

巴 sound component

  Sound component

  

to wish

Evolution

皅 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
皅 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
皅 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

greatly desire, anxiously hope

 

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

 

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

 

bái

white; pure, unblemished; bright

 

 

Bái

surname Bai

 

bái

white; snowy; pure; bright; empty; blank; plain; clear; to make clear; in vain; gratuitous; free of charge; reactionary; anti-communist; funeral; to stare coldly; to write wrong character; to state; to explain; vernacular; spoken lines in opera

 

 

Component uses

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+7685

Shuowen

“皅,艸華之白也。从白,巴聲。”


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