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bā

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English Definition	eight; 8
Simplified Script	八
Traditional Script	Same
Pinyin	bā
Effective Pinyin (After Tone Sandhi)	Same
Zhuyin (Bopomofo)	ㄅㄚ
Cantonese (Jyutping)	baat³
Part of Speech	(数) numeral
Proficiency Test Level	HSK.v3=1 TOCFL=1

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Words With Same Head Word
八卦	bāguà	the eight divinatory trigrams of the Book of Changes 易经; gossip; gossipy
八字	bāzì	the character 8 or 八; birthdate characters used in fortune-telling
八月	bāyuè	August; eighth month (of the lunar year)
八成	bāchéng	eighty percent; most probably; most likely
八路军	bā lù jūn	Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

Words With Same Tail Word
王八	wángbā	tortoise; cuckold; (old) male owner of a brothel; pimp
腊八	làbā	8th of December in Lunar calendar
横七竖八	héng qī shù bā	in disorder; at sixes and sevens (idiom)
杂七杂八	zá qī zá bā	an assortment; a bit of everything; lots of different (skills)
丘八	qiūbā	soldier (from the two components of the 兵 character) (derog.)

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