巴
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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
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巴 | |
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Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 巴 | ||
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| Shang | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (巴) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| 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 |
Pictogram (象形) — huge snake.
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
- "huge snake"
- Unknown. Schuessler (2007) compared 巴 (OC prâ) to
- Lao [script needed] (ŋuuᴬ⁴ kǎbaaᴬ³, “a kind of viper”), with ງູ (ngū, “snake”) and [script needed] (kǎ, “possible animal prefix”); as well as to
- Proto-North-Bahnaric *qbǎyh (ibid.) "snake" (or *bəs; Sidwell, 2011).
- Compare also the PNB word's descendants Halang bèh, Sedang pah, Jeh bàjh; as well as Khmer ពស់ (pŭəh), Central Nicobarese pai(ch) ~ pai(j) (“venomous snake”) (Shorto, 2006:#1921), Car Nicobarese pēch, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɓəs (“snake”).
Definitions
巴
- (ancient Chinese mythology) a huge snake that could swallow an elephant
- to greatly desire; to anxiously hope; to long for
- Used as a suffix for objects that are located below or behind.
- Used as a suffix for objects that are clumped together due to dryness or stickiness.
- to cling to; to stick to
- (Jilu Mandarin, Sichuan, dialectal Wu) to be close to; to be next to
- (Beijing, Jilu Mandarin) to open; to spread
- (Sichuan) to suit; to fit
- (Sichuan) to follow
- (Sichuan) to be intimate
- (Sichuan) to involve; to implicate
- (Sichuan) to kiss up; to curry favour
- (Sichuan) to subsidize
- (Sichuan) to infect; to contract
- (dialectal Mandarin, including Beijing, Shandong, Xinjiang) to sew; to stitch on
- (Southwestern Mandarin; Xiamen, Quanzhou Min Nan) dried object
- (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese) Classifier for the number of slaps.
- (Jiaoliao Mandarin, Sichuan) along
- (historical) Ba (an ancient state in modern-day Sichuan)
- eastern Sichuan and Chongqing
- A surname.
Etymology 4
| For pronunciation and definitions of 巴 – see 芭 (“short=1; a kind of fragrant grass; etc.”). (This character, 巴, is the second-round simplified form of 芭.) |
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Etymology 5
| For pronunciation and definitions of 巴 – see 笆 (“bamboo fence”). (This character, 巴, is the second-round simplified form of 笆.) |
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Etymology 6
| For pronunciation and definitions of 巴 – see 粑 (“tsamba”). (This character, 巴, is the second-round simplified form of 粑.) |
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Compounds
Derived terms from 巴
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Japanese
Readings
- Go-on: へ (he)
- Kan-on: は (ha)
- Kun: ともえ (tomoe, 巴)←ともゑ (tomowe, historical); うずまき (uzumaki, 巴)←うづまき (udumaki, historical)
Compounds
- 巴鴨 (tomoegamo, “Baikal teal”)
- 巴戦 (tomoesen, “dogfight”)
Etymology 1
| Kanji in this term |
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| 巴 |
| ともえ Jinmeiyō |
| kun’yomi |
巴 (tomoe): a circular design of swirling water, commonly used in Japanese family crests and corporate logos
Compound of 鞆絵 (tomoe): 鞆 (tomo, “archer's left-wrist protector”) + 絵 (e, “picture, drawing”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Derived terms
Noun
Korean
Hanja
巴 • (pa) (hangeul 파)
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Vietnamese
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