巴

See also 色, 笆, and 邑

Translingual

Phonosemantic interpretation

Old Chinese Initial /*p-/ lends semantic value Spread. Pictogram (象形) of a person spread flat on the ground (compare 匍). Present-day meanings are via borrowing. Source: Howell & Morimoto

Han character

巴 (radical 49 己+1, 4 strokes, cangjie input 日山 (AU), four-corner 7771₇)

1. greatly desire, anxiously hope
2. used as a suffix to describe a neighborhood within a particular province when speaking about someone
3. used to describe a song, not as a classic, but as vintage-popular

Derived characters

• 肥

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

巴 (Yale ba1)

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Japanese

Kanji

巴 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. a Japanese abstract shape (a swirl) that resembles a comma or the usual form of magatama.

Wikipedia

Readings

• On: は (ha)
• Kun: ともえ (tomoe), しゑと (shiweto)

Compounds

• 卍巴 (まんじともえ, manjitomoe or まんじどもえ, manjidomoe)

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Korean

Hanja

巴 (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune-Reischauer p'a)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

巴 (pinyin bā (ba1), Wade-Giles pa¹)

Compounds

• 尾巴 (wěibā)
• 巴基斯坦 (Bājīsītǎn) Pakistan

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Vietnamese

Han character

巴 (ba, bơ, va)