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Chinese

巴

bā
python (snake)
  • HSK 4
  • radical 己
  • 4 strokes

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Origin

Original form of 把.

; "huge snake"

; "bar"

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lineage

  • partChinese巳 “sixth of twelve earthly branches (十二支 (shí'èrzhī))”
  • partChinese丨 “To connect vertically; to pass through from top to bottom.”

Words built on it: 把, 爸, 爬, 嘴巴, 巴士, 尾巴

Meanings

character
  1. python (snake)
  2. 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.
  5. Used as a suffix for objects that are clumped together due to dryness or stickiness.
  6. to cling to; to stick to

Shuowen Jiezi 說文解字

巴：蟲也。或曰食象蛇。象形。凡巴之屬皆从巴。

Xu Shen, c. 100 CE — the first analytical dictionary of Chinese characters.

國語辭典 definitions

  1. 期望、盼望。 例：巴望、巴不得
  2. 接近、貼近。 例：前不巴村，後不著店。
  3. 指四川東部。 例：巴蜀
  4. 因乾燥、溼稠凝結成塊的東西。 例：泥巴、鹽巴
  5. 詞綴。附屬在物體下面或後面的東西。 例：尾巴、嘴巴
  6. 量詞。計算大氣壓力的單位。每平方公尺受力十萬牛頓，即每平方公分受力一百達因的壓力稱為「一巴」，其千分之一稱為「毫巴」。§英bar 例：一標準大氣壓力等於1.013巴。　△巴爾

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How 巴 was written 字形演變

  1. 巴 in Oracle bone script
    Oracle bone
    甲骨文
    Shang, c. 1250–1050 BCE
  2. 巴 in Small seal script
    Small seal
    說文小篆
    Shuowen, c. 100 CE
  3. 巴 in Regular script
    Regular
    楷書
    since c. 200 CE

Historical forms collected by the legacy etymfun dataset; most characters have several attested variants.

Sources

  • Structural decomposition (chaizi) — See upstream
  • Historical glyph forms (zdic.net 字形演变) — Rights unverified
  • HSK / TOCFL word lists — Facts (levels)
  • 教育部《國語辭典簡編本》 (Taiwan MOE) — CC BY-ND 3.0 TW
  • 說文解字 Shuowen Jiezi (Xu Shen, c. 100 CE) — Public domain
  • Written form — n/a
  • Wiktionary (via Wiktextract / kaikki.org) — CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Wiktionary: 巴