Ba hkscs.PNG
      Codepoint U+378E

      Translingual

      Etymology

      The character is the sound 巴 ba under a 尸 body radical, parallel to the character , meaning faeces.

      Han character

      (radical 44 +4, 7 strokes, cangjie input 尸日山 (SAU), composition)

      1. Used in the compound words 屎㞎㞎 (shǐ bǎ ba) and 㞎㞎 (bǎ ba), which are children's slang for excrement, dung. The character 㞎 can also be colloquially rendered as 屎巴巴.
      2. (dialectal) Weight measurement

      References


      Cantonese

      Hanzi

      (jyutping baa2, paa4, Yale ba2, pa4)

      1. children's slang for dung, excrement

      Mandarin

      Hanzi

      (pinyin (ba3), (pa2), Wade-Giles pa3, p'a2)

      1. children's slang for dung, excrement

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      Last modified on 3 January 2013, at 20:13