芭

See also: 巴

芭 U+82AD, 芭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82AD ← 芬 [U+82AC] CJK Unified Ideographs 芮 → [U+82AE]

Translingual

Han character

芭 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+4, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 7 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, Cangjie input 廿日山 (TAU), four-corner 4471₇, composition ⿱艹巴)

Derived characters

• 𢯓, 𬡞

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1020, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30730
• Dae Jaweon: page 1478, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3185, character 5
• Unihan data for U+82AD

Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (巴) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
巴	*praː
芭	*praː
笆	*praː, *braːʔ
豝	*praː
鈀	*praː, *pʰraː
吧	*praː, *pʰraː
蚆	*praː, *pʰraː
疤	*praː
把	*praːʔ
爸	*praːs, *baʔ
弝	*praːs
靶	*praːs
葩	*pʰraː
舥	*pʰraː
妑	*pʰraː
帊	*pʰraːs
琶	*braː
爬	*braː
杷	*braː, *braːs, *braːs
跁	*braːʔ, *braːs
耙	*braːs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *praː): semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 巴 (OC *praː).

Pronunciation 1

trad.		芭
simp. #		芭
2nd round simp.		巴

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): bā (ba¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): ба (ba, I)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baa¹
• Gan (Wiktionary): ba¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pâ
• Eastern Min (BUC): bă
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): pa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bā
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ba
    • Wade–Giles: pa¹
    • Yale: bā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ba
    • Palladius: ба (ba)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: ба (ba, I)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa²⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: baa¹
    • Yale: bā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ba¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paː⁵⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: ba¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa⁴²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pâ
    • Hakka Romanization System: ba^ˊ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ba¹
    • Sinological IPA: /pa²⁴/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: bă
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pa
    • Tâi-lô: pa
    • Phofsit Daibuun: paf
    • Sinological IPA (Xiamen): /pa⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Quanzhou): /pa³³/
    • Sinological IPA (Zhangzhou): /pa⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Taipei): /pa⁴⁴/
    • Sinological IPA (Kaohsiung): /pa⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: pae

Rime
Character	芭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	伯加切
Baxter	pae
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠa/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/pa/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/paɨ/
Li Rong	/pa/
Wang Li	/pa/
Bernhard Karlgren	/pa/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bā
Expected Cantonese Reflex	baa1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*praː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	芭
Reading #	1/1
No.	98
Phonetic component	巴
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	巴
Old Chinese	/*praː/

Definitions

芭

1. used in 芭蕉 (bājiāo); also used as its short form
2. a kind of fragrant grass

Compounds

• 水上芭蕾
• 沙上芭蕾
• 爵士芭蕾
• 白芭蕾
• 芭拉 (bālā)
• 芭提雅
• 芭樂 / 芭乐 (bālè)
• 芭樂票 / 芭乐票 (bālèpiào)
• 芭比 (bābǐ)
• 芭芭拉 (Bābālā)
• 芭菲 (bāfēi)
• 芭蕉 (bājiāo)
• 芭蕉扇 (bājiāoshàn)
• 芭蕾
• 芭蕾劇 / 芭蕾剧
• 芭蕾劇院 / 芭蕾剧院
• 芭蕾女演員 / 芭蕾女演员
• 芭蕾演員 / 芭蕾演员
• 芭蕾舞
• 芭蕾舞劇 / 芭蕾舞剧
• 芭蕾舞劇院 / 芭蕾舞剧院
• 芭蕾舞女演員 / 芭蕾舞女演员
• 芭蕾舞演員 / 芭蕾舞演员
• 芭蕾舞裙
• 芭蕾舞設計 / 芭蕾舞设计
• 芭蕾裙

Pronunciation 2

trad.		芭
simp. #		芭

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pā (pa¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄚ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pā
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pa
    • Wade–Giles: pʻa¹
    • Yale: pā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pa
    • Palladius: па (pa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰä⁵⁵/

Definitions

芭

1. Used in an ancient personal name.
2. alternative form of 葩 (pā)

References

• “芭”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

芭

(Jinmeiyō kanji)

1. banana

Readings

• Go-on: へ (he)
• Kan-on: は (ha)
• Kan’yō-on: ば (ba)
• Kun: はな (hana, 芭)

Compounds

• 芭(ば)蕉(しょう) (bashō)

Korean

Hanja

芭 • (pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune–Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

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Tày

Classifier

芭 (bâư)

1. Nôm form of bâư (“classifier for leaf-like objects”).

   縘㐌删云𱺺困挒
   紙𱦊淰难执云芭

   Khe đạ san vần phin khổn lỉt
   Chỉa giủp nặm nàn chíp vần bâư

   The net when woven into a product is finished is hard to be untied
   The paper when dipped in the water is hard to be folded into a sheet

Noun

芭 (bâư)

1. Nôm form of bâư (“leaf”).

   坎沃枯模榔芭磊

   Khảm oóc co mác làng bâư luội

   Go past the areca tree whose leaves are drooping

References

• Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[2] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]

Vietnamese

Han character

芭: Hán Việt readings: ba (邦(bang)加(gia)切(thiết))
芭: Nôm readings: ba, bơ

1. chữ Nôm form of ba (“Central Vietnam form of hoa (“flower”)”)
   • 1863, 幼學五言詩 [Ấu học ngũ ngôn thi, Five-Character Poetry for Elementary Learners]‎^[3], page 2b:

     几學如体𥺊穭芭
     𫯍𨳒種平𦹵葚
     𦹵葚𠊛些所恄
     穭芭烝𧵑𥪝渃

     Kẻ học như thấy gạo lúa ba,
     Đứa mọn giống bằng cỏ rậm.
     Cỏ rậm người ta thửa ghét,
     Lúa ba chưng của trong nước.

     The learned person is like flowering rice in the field,
     The foolish man is like weeds.
     Weeds are what people detest,
     Flowering rice and grain are the wealth of the state.