巴

See also: 色, 笆, and 邑

Translingual

Han character

巴 (radical 49 己+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 日山 (AU), four-corner 7771₇, composition ⿴巳丨)

1. greatly desire, anxiously hope
2. used as a suffix to describe a neighborhood within a particular province when speaking about someone
3. used to describe a song, not as a classic, but as vintage-popular
4. a surname

Derived characters

• 肥

References

• KangXi: page 327, character 1
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 8745
• Dae Jaweon: page 631, character 2
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 985, character 1
• Unihan data for U+5DF4

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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		巴

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bā (ba¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baa¹
• Min Nan (POJ): pa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: bā
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ
    • Wade-Giles: pa¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ba
    • IPA ^(key): /pa̠⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: baa¹
    • Yale: bā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baa¹
    • IPA ^(key): /pɑː⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pa
    • Tâi-lô: pa
    • IPA (Taipei): /pa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pa³⁴/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (巴, reconstructed)
Character (巴), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 幫 (1) Final: 麻 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 伯加切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/pɣa/	/pa/	/pa/	/pɯa/	/paɨ/	/pa/	/pa/

Old Chinese pronunciation (巴, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
巴								bā								‹ pæ ›								/*pˤra/								snake
巴								bā								‹ pæ ›								/*pˤra/								[place name]
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
巴					97					巴					魚					0					巴					/*praː/

Compounds

• 巴基斯坦 (Bājīsītǎn, “Pakistan”)
• 丹巴 (Dānbā)
• 尾巴 (wěibā)

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Wikipedia ^ja

Kanji

巴

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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1. a tomoe

Readings

• On: は (ha)
• Kun: ともえ (tomoe), しゑと (shiweto)

Compounds

• 卍巴 (まんじともえ, manjitomoe or まんじどもえ, manjidomoe)

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Korean

Hanja

巴 (pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune-Reischauer p'a)

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Vietnamese

Han character

巴 (ba, bơ, va)

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