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巴 - bā

greatly desire, anxiously hope

greatly desire, anxiously hope

How to read 巴

Click 巴 to hear Mandarin pronunciation. Use the example words before memorizing it in isolation.

Hanzi
Traditional
Pinyin
Englishgreatly desire, anxiously hope
Radical hint

Short sentences you can say today

巴中 is a common expression. I can make a sentence with 巴仙. Please read 巴以 one more time.

Common words with this character

see 巴中市[Ba1 zhong1 Shi4]
percent
Palestinian-Israeli
percent

Mistake warning

Do not memorize 巴 only as an isolated symbol. Read it inside words like 巴中 and 巴仙 first, then come back to the single-character pronunciation.

Original example sentence

I am learning the character 巴.