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tail / colloquial pr. [yi3 ba5]
HSK 4
mouth (CL:張|张) / slap in the face (CL:個|个)
HSK 4
(coll.) large bus / coach / (abbr. for 大型巴士)
HSK 4
(loanword) rhumba
Bathsheba, wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David (according to the Hebrew Bible)
China-Pakistan (relations) / China-Bahamas
minibus
harsh / savage / fierce
chin
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *巴* | 巴* | *巴
Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan) / the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality / surname Ba / (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦 (Palestine), 巴基斯坦 (Pakistan) or 巴西 (Brazil)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *巴* | 巴* | *巴
to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth 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
America and Pakistan / America and Brazil / America and Panama
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
Israeli-Palestinian
Cuba
to slap
minibus
Europe / Europa
pig's tail (meat)
Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB) (abbr. for 九龍巴士|九龙巴士)
very fierce
India and Pakistan
to bundle up
(physiology) (loanword) lymph
tight fitting / hard up (i.e. lacking money)
pathetic / pitiful
a mute / mute; silent
to blink / to wink
lit. fox's tail (idiom); visible sign of evil intentions / to reveal one's evil nature / evidence that reveals the villain
samba (dance) (loanword)
(coll.) mud
to have one's tail between one's legs
Zhenba County in Hanzhong 漢中|汉中, Shaanxi
(female usage) older brother (loanword from Korean "oppa") / male friend
Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia
Shut up!
(dialect) awkward; uncomfortable / (dialect) obstinate; contrary; argumentative
Manitoba province, Canada
Khampa, subdivision of Tibetan ethnic group / former Tibetan province of Kham, now split between Tibet and Sichuan
jitterbug (loanword)
stammeringly
jitterbug (loanword)
Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), Tibetan religious leader, founder of the Gelugpa school 格魯派|格鲁派
to slap
Sabah, state of Malaysia in north Borneo 婆羅洲|婆罗洲
to stutter
to tuck one's tail between one's legs / fig. to back down / in a humiliating situation
(suffix) very / extremely
guoba (scorched rice at the bottom of the pan)
(loanword) marimba
bigmouth / blabbermouth
to obstruct / to be a drag on sb / to delay finishing off a job
Ali Baba, character from The Arabian Nights
Alibaba, PRC e-commerce company
Aruba, island in the Caribbean, a self-governing part of the Netherlands
(Tw) (slang) a prank, prevalent in Chinese schools and known as "happy corner" in Hong Kong, in which several people carry a victim with his legs spread open, bringing his groin up against a pole or tree trunk
(dialect) to gather up; to throw together
to leave loose ends / to leave matters unresolved
Zhongba county, Tibetan: 'Brong pa rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Manitoba, province of Canada
millibar (mbar or mb), unit of pressure (equal to hectopascal)
wrinkled / crumpled / unironed
to be cocky
double chin
dry / parched / dull / insipid
table salt
stammering / stuttering / not speaking fluently
fenugreek
Gamba county, Tibetan: Gam pa rdzong, in Shigatse prefecture, Tibet
Paya Lebar, a place in Singapore
Bonaparte (name) / Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of France 1804-1815
Danba county (Tibetan: rong brag rdzong) in Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture 甘孜藏族自治州, Sichuan (formerly in Kham province of Tibet)
Aba, southeast Nigerian city / Aba, the Lisu 傈僳 word for grandfather
Curitiba (city in Brazil)
thin / scrawny / emaciated
tight (i.e. lacking money) / hard up / same as 緊巴巴|紧巴巴
dick / penis (vulgar)
waiting anxiously / impatient
Aqaba (port city in Jordan)
big Russian-style bread (loanword from Russian "хлеб")
(dialect) tooth
(loanword) amoeba
Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia (Tw)
Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras
Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras (Tw)
fenugreek
lit. rat's tail; fig. a follower of inferior stature
Cuba Libre
jojoba
Aruba, variant of 阿魯巴|阿鲁巴


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