丷
bā
"eight" component in Chinese characters
old variant of 八[ba1]
a picture of 丷 → two strokes splitting apart, meaning eight
The two strokes splay outward from a center point, visually enacting the idea of dividing or splitting — which is the original sense of eight. 八 (and its variant 丷) once depicted something being split in two.
丶A single dot strokeSemantic
丷是「八」的古字，意思相同。
bā shì 「bā」 de gǔ zì，yì si xiāng tóng。
bā is an old form of '八', with the same meaning.
丷作为部件出现在一些汉字里。
bā zuò wéi bù jiàn chū xiàn zài yī xiē hàn zì lǐ。
bā appears as a component inside certain Chinese characters.