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bā
| English Definition | to long for; to wish; to cling to; to stick to; something that sticks; close to; next to; spread open; informal abbr. for bus 巴士; bar (unit of pressure); nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴, tail; Ba state during Zhou dynasty (in east of modern Sichuan); abbr. for east Sichuan or Chongqing; (Chinese surname); abbr. for Palestine or Palestinian; abbr. for Pakistan |
| Simplified Script | 巴 |
| Traditional Script | Same |
| Pinyin | bā |
| Effective Pinyin (After Tone Sandhi) | Same |
| Zhuyin (Bopomofo) | ㄅㄚ |
| Cantonese (Jyutping) | baa1 |
| Part of Speech | (动) verb |
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