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U+5DF4, 巴
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-5DF4

[U+5DF3]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+5DF5]

Translingual

Han character

(Kangxi radical 49, +1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 日山 (AU), four-corner 77717, composition )

Derived characters

Further reading

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Bala

Etymology

From Proto-Tungusic *buga. Cognate with Manchu ᠪᠠ (ba).

Noun

(ba)

  1. place

Derived terms

References

  • “The Only Known Text from Bala, an Extinct Tungusic Language”, in Studia Orientalia Electronica, volume 9, number 1, 2021, pages 173–191

Chinese

Glyph origin

More information Historical forms of the character 巴, Shang ...

Pictogram (象形) — a huge snake. However, in and (both Kangxi radicals) it represents a person kneeling.

Etymology 1

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Are all these senses related? Some have proposed that these are all derived from the snake sense.”)

"huge snake"
Unclear. Compare
"bar"
Borrowed from English bar.

Pronunciation


Note: pa - only in 巴士.
Note:
  • 1pa (Shanghai) - literary;
  • 1po (Shanghai) - vernacular.

  • Dialectal data
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Definitions

  1. (Classical) python
  2. (ancient Chinese mythology) a huge snake that could swallow an elephant
  3. to greatly desire; to anxiously hope; to long for
  4. Used as a suffix for objects that are located below or behind.
       wěiba   tail
       xiàba   chin
  5. Used as a suffix for objects that are clumped together due to dryness or stickiness.
       ba   mud
  6. to cling to; to stick to
  7. (Jilu Mandarin, Sichuanese, dialectal Wu) to be close to; to be next to
  8. (Beijing Mandarin, Jilu Mandarin) to open; to spread
  9. (Sichuanese) to suit; to fit
  10. (Sichuanese) to follow
  11. (Sichuanese) to be intimate
  12. (Sichuanese) to involve; to implicate
  13. (Sichuanese) to kiss up; to curry favour
  14. (Sichuanese) to subsidize
  15. (Sichuanese) to infect; to contract
  16. (dialectal Mandarin, including Beijing Mandarin, Shandong Mandarin, Xinjiang Mandarin) to sew; to stitch on
  17. (Southwestern Mandarin; Xiamen and Quanzhou Hokkien) dried object
  18. (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese) Classifier for the number of slaps.
    [Cantonese]   daa2 keoi5 jat1 baa1 [Jyutping]   to give him a slap
  19. (Jiaoliao Mandarin, Sichuanese) along
  20. (historical) Ba (an ancient state in modern-day Sichuan)
  21. eastern Sichuan and Chongqing
  22. Used in transcription.
    西      Brazil
       nèn   Lebanon
          Paris
       Méngdùn   Mountbatten
       Ào   Obama
       Xīng   Starbucks
    1. short for 巴士 (bāshì, “bus”)
         xiǎo   minibus
    2. (physics) bar (unit of pressure)
    3. (Cantonese) bar (Classifier: c)
      [Cantonese]   din6 baa1 [Jyutping]   busbar
      [Cantonese]   zaap6 baa1 [Jyutping]   boom barrier
    4. short for 巴勒斯坦 (Bālèsītǎn, “Palestine”)
    5. short for 巴基斯坦 (Bājīsītǎn, “Pakistan”)
    6. short for 巴拿馬巴拿马 (Bānámǎ, “Panama”)
    7. short for 巴哈馬巴哈马 (Bāhāmǎ, “The Bahamas”)
    8. short for 巴拉圭 (Bālāguī, “Paraguay”)
  23. a surname
Descendants
Sino-Xenic ():
  • Japanese: () (Ha)
  • Korean: 파(巴) (Pa)
  • Vietnamese: Ba ()

Compounds

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation


Note: ba - Beijing dialect (Xu, 1990).

Definitions

(colloquial)

  1. A suffix used after monosyllabic verbs, often gives the verb a sense of nonchalance.

Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of – see .
(This character is the second-round simplified form of ).
Notes:

Etymology 4

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“bamboo fence”).
(This character is the second-round simplified form of ).
Notes:

Etymology 5

For pronunciation and definitions of – see (“cake-like food”).
(This character is the second-round simplified form of ).
Notes:

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