巴

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Bā

Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan); the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality; 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

Examples

他是巴黎人。

He's a Parisian.

黎巴嫩在哪？

Where is Lebanon?

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.