芭

See also: 巴

芭 U+82AD, 芭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82AD ← 芬 [U+82AC] CJK Unified Ideographs 芮 → [U+82AE]

Translingual

Han character

芭 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+4, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 7 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿日山 (TAU), four-corner 4471₇, composition ⿱艹巴)

References

• KangXi: page 1020, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30730
• Dae Jaweon: page 1478, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3185, character 5
• Unihan data for U+82AD

Chinese

Glyph origin

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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *praː): semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 巴 (OC *praː).

Pronunciation 1

trad.		芭
simp. #		芭
2nd round simp.		巴

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): bā (ba¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): ба (ba, I)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baa¹
• Gan (Wiktionary): ba¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pâ
• Min Dong (BUC): bă
• Min Nan (POJ): pa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bā
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ba
    • Wade–Giles: pa¹
    • Yale: bā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ba
    • Palladius: ба (ba)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: ба (ba, I)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa²⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: baa¹
    • Yale: bā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ba¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paː⁵⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: ba¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa⁴²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pâ
    • Hakka Romanization System: ba´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ba¹
    • Sinological IPA: /pa²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: bă
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pa
    • Tâi-lô: pa
    • Phofsit Daibuun: paf
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pa³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pa⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /pˠa/

Rime
Character	芭
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
Baxter	pae
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	baa1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*praː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	芭
Reading #	1/1
No.	98
Phonetic component	巴
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	巴
Old Chinese	/*praː/

Definitions

芭

1. Used in 芭蕉 (bājiāo); also used as its short form.
2. a kind of fragrant grass

Compounds

• 水上芭蕾
• 沙上芭蕾
• 爵士芭蕾
• 白芭蕾
• 芭拉
• 芭提雅
• 芭比 (bābǐ)
• 芭芭拉 (Bābālā)
• 芭菲 (bāfēi)

• 芭蕉 (bājiāo)
• 芭蕉扇 (bājiāoshàn)
• 芭蕾 (bālěi)
• 芭蕾舞 (bālěiwǔ)
• 芭蕾舞裙
• 芭蕾裙
• 芭樂／芭乐 (bālè)
• 芭樂票／芭乐票
• 芭蕾劇／芭蕾剧

• 芭蕾劇院／芭蕾剧院
• 芭蕾女演員／芭蕾女演员
• 芭蕾演員／芭蕾演员
• 芭蕾舞劇／芭蕾舞剧
• 芭蕾舞劇院／芭蕾舞剧院
• 芭蕾舞女演員／芭蕾舞女演员
• 芭蕾舞演員／芭蕾舞演员
• 芭蕾舞設計／芭蕾舞设计

Pronunciation 2

trad.		芭
simp. #		芭

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pā (pa¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄚ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pā
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pa
    • Wade–Giles: pʻa¹
    • Yale: pā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pa
    • Palladius: па (pa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰä⁵⁵/

Definitions

芭

1. Used in an ancient personal name.
2. Alternative form of 葩 (pā).

References

• “芭”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

Japanese

Kanji

芭

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. banana

Readings

• Go-on: へ (he)
• Kan-on: は (ha)
• Kan’yō-on: ば (ba)
• Kun: はな (hana, 芭)

Compounds

• 芭(ば)蕉(しょう) (bashō)

Korean

Hanja

芭 • (pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune–Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

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Tày

Noun

芭 (transliteration needed)

1. Nôm form of bâư (“leaf”).

References

• Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[2] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

Vietnamese

Han character

芭: Hán Việt readings: ba (邦(bang)加(gia)切(thiết))
芭: Nôm readings: ba, bơ

1. chữ Hán form of ba (“banana”).

   Synonyms: 桎, 樶, 荎, 蕉

Compounds

• 芭蕉 (Ba Tiêu)