芭

See also: 巴

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)

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

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Chinese

trad.		芭
simp. #		芭
alternative forms		巴 second round simplified

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 艸 (“grass”) + phonetic 巴 (OC *praː).

Pronunciation 1

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bā (ba¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baa¹
• 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/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: baa¹
    • Yale: bā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ba¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paː⁵⁵/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pa
    • Tâi-lô: pa
    • Phofsit Daibuun: paf
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pa³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pa⁴⁴/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 芭

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

Pronunciation 2

• 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

(deprecated template usage) 芭

1. Used in an ancient personal name.
2. (deprecated template usage) Alternative form of 葩 (pā).

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Japanese

Kanji

芭

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. banana

Readings

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

Compounds

• 芭蕉(ばしょう) (bashō)

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Korean

Hanja

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

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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Vietnamese

Han character

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

1. chữ Hán form of ba (“banana”).

   Synonyms: 桎, 樶, 荎, 蕉

Compounds

• 芭蕉 (Ba Tiêu)