plantain or banana palm

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

is a component form of .

巴 sound component

  Sound component

  

to wish

Definitions

 

plantain or banana palm; fragrant; a herb; banana

Most common words with 芭
Freq.
Word
Meaning

a herb

芭蕾

ballet (loanword)

芭蕾舞

ballet (loanword)

芭芭拉

Barbara or Barbra (name)

芭蕉

Japanese banana (Musa basjoo)

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 7.0799% of movies

1663rd most common character in movies

3126th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+82AD


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