芭

芭

See also: 巴

芭 U+82AD, 芭 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-82AD ← 芬 [U+82AC] CJK Unified Ideographs 芮 → [U+82AE]

Translingual

Han character

芭 (Kangxi radical 140, 艸+4, 8 strokes in traditional Chinese and Korean, 7 strokes in mainland China and Japanese, cangjie input 廿日山 (TAU), four-corner 4471₇, composition ⿱艹巴)

References

• KangXi: page 1020, character 15
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30730
• Dae Jaweon: page 1478, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3185, character 5
• Unihan data for U+82AD

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (巴) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *praː) : semantic 艹 (“grass”) + phonetic 巴 (OC *praː).

Pronunciation 1

trad.		芭
simp. #		芭
2nd round simp.		巴

• Mandarin

  (Standard)

  (Pinyin): bā (ba¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚ

  (Dungan, Cyrillic and Wiktionary): ба (ba, I)

• Cantonese (Jyutping): baa¹
• Gan (Wiktionary): ba¹
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): pâ
• Min Dong (BUC): bă
• Min Nan (POJ): pa

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bā
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: ba
    • Wade–Giles: pa¹
    • Yale: bā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ba
    • Palladius: ба (ba)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵/
  • (Dungan)
    • Cyrillic and Wiktionary: ба (ba, I)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa²⁴/

    (Note: Dungan pronunciation is currently experimental and may be inaccurate.)

• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: baa¹
    • Yale: bā
    • Cantonese Pinyin: baa¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: ba¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /paː⁵⁵/
• Gan
  • (Nanchang)
    • Wiktionary: ba¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa⁴²/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: pâ
    • Hakka Romanization System: ba´
    • Hagfa Pinyim: ba¹
    • Sinological IPA: /pa²⁴/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: bă
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pa⁵⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: pa
    • Tâi-lô: pa
    • Phofsit Daibuun: paf
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pa³³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pa⁴⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pa⁴⁴/

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• Middle Chinese: /pˠa/

Rime
Character	芭
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	麻 (98)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	伯加切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/pˠa/
Pan Wuyun	/pᵚa/
Shao Rongfen	/pa/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/paɨ/
Li Rong	/pa/
Wang Li	/pa/
Bernard Karlgren	/pa/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	bā
Expected Cantonese Reflex	baa1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*praː/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	芭
Reading #	1/1
No.	98
Phonetic component	巴
Rime group	魚
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	巴
Old Chinese	/*praː/

Definitions

芭

1. Used in 芭蕉 (bājiāo); also used as its short form.
2. a kind of fragrant grass

Compounds

水上芭蕾 沙上芭蕾 爵士芭蕾 白芭蕾 芭拉 芭提雅 芭比 (bābǐ) 芭芭拉 (Bābālā) 芭菲 (bāfēi)

芭蕉 (bājiāo) 芭蕉扇 (bājiāoshàn) 芭蕾 (bālěi) 芭蕾舞 (bālěiwǔ) 芭蕾舞裙 芭蕾裙 芭樂／芭乐 (bālè) 芭樂票／芭乐票 芭蕾劇／芭蕾剧

芭蕾劇院／芭蕾剧院 芭蕾女演員／芭蕾女演员 芭蕾演員／芭蕾演员 芭蕾舞劇／芭蕾舞剧 芭蕾舞劇院／芭蕾舞剧院 芭蕾舞女演員／芭蕾舞女演员 芭蕾舞演員／芭蕾舞演员 芭蕾舞設計／芭蕾舞设计

Pronunciation 2

trad.		芭
simp. #		芭

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): pā (pa¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄆㄚ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: pā
    • Zhuyin: ㄆㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: pa
    • Wade–Giles: pʻa¹
    • Yale: pā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pa
    • Palladius: па (pa)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pʰä⁵⁵/

Definitions

芭

1. Used in an ancient personal name.
2. Alternative form of 葩 (pā).

References

• “芭”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

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Japanese

Kanji

芭

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. banana

Readings

• Go-on: へ (he)
• Kan-on: は (ha)
• Kan’yō-on: ば (ba)
• Kun: はな (hana, 芭)

Compounds

• 芭(ば)蕉(しょう) (bashō)

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Korean

Hanja

芭 • (pa) (hangeul 파, revised pa, McCune–Reischauer p'a, Yale pha)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

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Tày

Noun

芭 (transliteration needed)

1. Nôm form of bâư (“leaf”).

References

• Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

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Vietnamese

Han character

芭: Hán Việt readings: ba (邦(bang)加(gia)切(thiết))[1][2][3]
芭: Nôm readings: ba[1], bơ[1]

1. chữ Hán form of ba (“banana”).

   Synonyms: 桎, 樶, 荎, 蕉

Compounds

• 芭蕉 (Ba Tiêu)

References

1. Nguyễn et al. (2009).
2. Trần (2004).
3. Génibrel (1898).