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巴

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)

Derived characters

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 巴

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 巴
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
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

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 巴
Mandarin Beijing /pa⁵⁵/
Harbin /pa⁴⁴/
/pa²⁴/ ～彥
Tianjin /pɑ²¹/
Jinan /pa²¹³/
Qingdao /pa²¹³/
Zhengzhou /pa²⁴/
Xi'an /pa²¹/
Xining /pa⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /pa⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /pa³¹/
Ürümqi /pa⁴⁴/
Wuhan /pa⁵⁵/
Chengdu /pa⁵⁵/
Guiyang /pa⁵⁵/
Kunming /pa̠⁴⁴/
Nanjing /pɑ³¹/
Hefei /pa²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /pa¹¹/
Pingyao /pɑ¹³/
Hohhot /pa³¹/
Wu Shanghai /po⁵³/
/pa⁵³/
Suzhou /po⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /pɑ³³/
Wenzhou /po³³/
Hui Shexian /pa³¹/
Tunxi /puːə¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /pa³³/
Xiangtan /pɒ³³/
Gan Nanchang /pɑ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /pa⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /pɑ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /pa⁵³/
Nanning /pa⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /pa⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /pa⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /pa⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /pa⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /pa³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /ʔba²³/ ～掌
/ʔba³¹/ 俗
Rime
Character 巴
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
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /pˠa/
Pan
Wuyun		 /pᵚa/
Shao
Rongfen		 /pa/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /paɨ/
Li
Rong		 /pa/
Wang
Li		 /pa/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /pa/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 bā
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 巴 巴
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 bā bā
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ pæ › ‹ pæ ›
Old
Chinese		 /*pˤra/ /*pˤra/
English snake [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 巴
Reading # 1/1
No. 97
Phonetic
component		 巴
Rime
group		 魚
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 巴
Old
Chinese		 /*praː/

Definitions

巴

  1. (historical geography) Ba, an ancient state in Sichuan
  2. greatly desire, anxiously hope
  3. used as a suffix to describe a neighborhood within a particular province when speaking about someone
  4. used to describe a song, not as a classic, but as vintage-popular
  5. a phonetic component used in transliterations
  6. A surname​.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

巴

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

Kanji in this term
巴
ともえ
Jinmeiyō
kun'yomi
巴 (tomoe): a comma design

Pronunciation

Noun

巴 ‎(hiragana ともえ, romaji tomoe, alternative reading ともゑ, romaji tomowe)

  1. tomoe (comma design)

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9

Korean

Hanja

巴 • ‎(pa) (hangeul 파)

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Vietnamese

Han character

巴 (ba, bơ, va)

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