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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
bā | ba1
English translation
bar (loanword) (serving drinks, or providing Internet access etc)
to puff (on a pipe etc)
(onom.) bang
abbr. for 貼吧
>贴吧 tiē bā [tiē bā]
(modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise)
...right?
...OK?
...I presume.
emphatic final particle

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Number of strokes

7

Traditional form

Contains the radical

kǒu

Part of speech

Modal particle / 语气词 yǔ qì cí Yǔqì cí

Learning hint

mouth

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Type

pictophonetic

Positional decomposition

口巴

Semantic compound

kǒu

Phonetic compound

Explanation

Phonosemantic compound. kǒu represents the meaning and represents the sound.

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饿 è 到头 dào tóu , ràng .

Finish it off and let me die.

穿着 chuān zhuó jiàn hòu 毛衣 máo yī 一定 yīdìng hěn .

You must be boiling in that thick sweater.

我们 wǒmen děng zhāo qiáo huì 发生 fāshēng 什么 shénme shì .

Let's wait and see what transpires.

men chī diǎn 东西 dōngxī ; 饿 è huài le .

Let's get something to eat; I'm starving.

qǐng ràng 我们 wǒmen jìn ,外面 wài miàn hěn Lěng .

Please let us in, it's cold outside.

Words with

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
...OK?
酒吧 jiǔbā bar酒吧 jiǔbā
网吧 wǎng bā Internet café網吧
吧台 bā tái counter of a bar (pub)吧台 bā tái
吧唧 bā jī (onom.) squishing sound吧唧 bā jī
吧唧吧唧 bā ji bā ji (onom.) smacking the lips吧唧吧唧 bā ji bā ji
吧嗒 bā da to smack one's lips吧嗒 bā da

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Decomposition

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