巴
bā
the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality
Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan); surname Ba; (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Ba1 le4 si1 tan3] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Ba1 ji1 si1 tan3] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Ba1 xi1] (Brazil); 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[ba1 shi4]; bar (unit of pressure); nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail
This character is used for its sound in loanwords, not for its component meanings.
她一直巴望着快点放假。
tā yī zhí bā wàng zhe kuài diǎn fàng jià。
She has been longing for the holiday to come soon.
泥巴粘在鞋底上，很难清洗干净。
ní bā zhān zài xié dǐ shàng，hěn nán qīng xǐ gān jìng。
Mud has stuck to the sole of the shoe and is very hard to clean off.
Words with 巴
巴尔干
bā ěr gàn
Balkan
奥巴马
ào bā mǎ
Barack Obama (1961–), US Democrat politician, president 2009–2017
锅巴
guō bā
guoba (scorched rice at the bottom of the pan)
巴厘
bā lí
Bali (island province of Indonesia)
巴解组织
bā jiě zǔ zhī
abbr. for 巴勒斯坦解放組織|巴勒斯坦解放组织[Ba1 le4 si1 tan3 Jie3 fang4 Zu3 zhi1]
阿里巴巴
ā lǐ bā bā
Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights
嘴巴
zuǐ ba
mouth (CL:張|张[zhang1])
巴楚
bā chǔ
Maralbeshi nahiyisi (Maralbexi county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang
巴金
bā jīn
Ba Jin (1904–2005), novelist, author of the trilogy 家春秋[Jia1 Chun1 Qiu1]
欧巴
ōu bā
(female usage) older brother (loanword from Korean "oppa")
巴东县
bā dōng xiàn
Badong, a county in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州[En1 shi1 Tu3 jia1 zu2 Miao2 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], Hubei
巴山
bā shān
Mt Ba in eastern Sichuan