眨巴

Chinese

		wink	(suff. for certain nouns); to hope; to wish (suff. for certain nouns); to hope; to wish; Palestinian, Palestine (abbrev.); Pakistan (abbrev.); Pascal (unit of pressure)
simp. and trad. (眨巴)		眨	巴

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): zhǎba

  (Zhuyin): ㄓㄚˇ ˙ㄅㄚ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): zaam² baa¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: zhǎba
    • Zhuyin: ㄓㄚˇ ˙ㄅㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: jhǎbå
    • Wade–Giles: cha³-pa⁵
    • Yale: jǎ-ba
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jaa.ba
    • Palladius: чжаба (čžaba)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂä²¹⁴ b̥ä⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: zaam² baa¹
    • Yale: jáam bā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: dzaam² baa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: zam² ba¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡saːm³⁵ paː⁵⁵/

Verb

眨巴

1. (regional) to blink; to wink

Synonyms

• 眨 (zhǎ)