巴

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

• 肥

• 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

Historical forms of the character 巴
Shang	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Pictogram (象形) — huge snake.

"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”).

巴

1. (ancient Chinese mythology) a huge snake that could swallow an elephant
2. to greatly desire; to anxiously hope; to long for
3. Used as a suffix for objects that are located below or behind.

   尾巴  ―  wěiba  ―  tail

4. Used as a suffix for objects that are clumped together due to dryness or stickiness.

   泥巴  ―  níba  ―  mud

5. to cling to; to stick to
6. (Jilu Mandarin, Sichuan, dialectal Wu) to be close to; to be next to
7. (Beijing, Jilu Mandarin) to open; to spread
8. (Sichuan) to suit; to fit
9. (Sichuan) to follow
10. (Sichuan) to be intimate
11. (Sichuan) to involve; to implicate
12. (Sichuan) to kiss up; to curry favour
13. (Sichuan) to subsidize
14. (Sichuan) to infect; to contract
15. (dialectal Mandarin, including Beijing, Shandong, Xinjiang) to sew; to stitch on
16. (Southwestern Mandarin; Xiamen, Quanzhou Min Nan) dried object
17. (dialectal Mandarin, Cantonese) Classifier for the number of slaps.

    打佢一巴 [Cantonese]  ―  daa² keoi⁵ jat¹ baa¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to give him a slap

18. (Jiaoliao Mandarin, Sichuan) along
19. (historical) Ba (an ancient state in modern-day Sichuan)
20. eastern Sichuan and Chongqing
21. A surname​.

巴

1. Short for 巴士 (bāshì, “bus”).

   小巴  ―  xiǎobā  ―  minibus

Borrowed from English bar.

巴

1. bar (unit of pressure)

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

• 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)}

• 巴 (ともえ)鴨 (がも) (tomoegamo, “Baikal teal”)
• 巴 (ともえ)戦 (せん) (tomoesen, “dogfight”)

巴 (tomoe): a circular design of swirling water, commonly used in Japanese family crests and corporate logos

Compound of 鞆 (とも)絵 (え) (tomoe): 鞆 (とも) (tomo, “archer's left-wrist protector”) + 絵 (え) (e, “picture, drawing”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• Kun’yomi
  • (Tokyo) ともえ [tòmóé] (Heiban – [0])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [to̞mo̞e̞]

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

1. tomoe (comma design)

巴 (hiragana ともえ, rōmaji Tomoe)

1. A surname​.

• 巴 (ともえ)瓦 (がわら) (tomoegawara, “comma-pattern tile”)
• 巴 (ともえ)投 (な)げ (tomoenage, “overhead throw”)
• 卍 (まんじ)巴 (ともえ) (manjitomoe, “falling in swirls​”)
• 三 (み)つ巴 (どもえ) (mitsudomoe, “three-way struggle”)

巴 (hiragana うずまき, rōmaji uzumaki, historical hiragana うづまき)

1. Alternative spelling of 渦巻き (“whirlpool (pattern)”)

巴 • (pa) (hangeul 파)

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巴 (ba, bơ, va)

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