吧 · ba
emphatic final particle
Meanings & readings
Meaning & readings
emphatic final particle
- Mandarin
- ba
- Cantonese
- baa6
Unihan definitions and selected character readings. Read the word to establish its pronunciation in context.
Readings in Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese
Readings recorded for 吧 in other language traditions. These are character-level records, not word translations or interchangeable pronunciations.
Japanese 日本語
Grouped by the source’s kana notation; no frequency ranking is implied.
On’yomi · katakana
Katakana generally indicates on’yomi; hiragana generally indicates kun’yomi. The source does not identify everyday, rare, historical or name use per reading. Kana strings are preserved, including any written endings; consult a Japanese word entry for actual use.
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Korean 한국어
Not recorded for this exact character in this dataset. This does not mean the language has no reading.
Vietnamese Tiếng Việt
Character readings · Quốc ngữ
Vietnamese readings associated with this Han character. This field alone does not establish word meanings, current usage, or a complete account of Hán-Nôm reading traditions.
Go deeperNaver Hanja ↗Wiktionary ↗
Go deeperHán Việt (Thi Viện) ↗Wiktionary ↗
Form & structure
Writing & identity
- Unicode
- U+5427
- Radical
- 口 · 30
- Strokes
- 7 · Unihan
- Residual
- 4
Source record · Unihan 17.0. Individual senses and historical claims have not yet been reviewed by zimai.
Stroke order
7 strokesModern stroke order; regional conventions can differ. Stroke medians: Make Me a Hanzi via HanziLookupJS, drawn as an even pen line.
Graphical structure
How to read these symbols
⿰ left–right · ⿱ above–below · ⿻ overlap. Dotted boxes indicate positions, not missing characters. Each symbol describes the components that follow it; nested symbols describe a component in more detail. Source codes identify alternative analyses, not a writing sequence or an etymology.
BabelStone IDS · 2025-06-27. Region tags are preserved; 〾 marks approximation and {n} identifies an unencoded source component. These describe graphical structure, not historical derivation.
Words & connections
Words using 吧
Character connections
No reverse component match in this collection.
Sentence context · 2 matches
那么，咱们走吧。
Source, contributors & licenses
Mandarin: Tatoeba #400317 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: GlossaMatik
English: Tatoeba #400314 · Original contributor: FeuDRenais · CC BY 2.0 FR · Attribution log · Current owner: CM
Source text unchanged. Original contributor and text editors are credited from the source log, separately from the current owner.
History & distinctions
Related forms
No simplified/traditional variant property is retained for this record.
Historical readings
- Middle Chinese
- phae · 普巴 反切 · #780
- Middle Chinese
- pae · 伯加 反切 · #782
Guangyun-based transcriptions · PHONO-ML · CC BY 4.0. These describe historical reading categories, not modern word pronunciation.
Source row & reading categories
CSV line 6288 · phae = 假開二平麻滂 · pae = 假開二平麻幫
Automatically generated in the source dataset; the authors checked a subset and acknowledge possible errors. All source readings are retained separately. Notation & method ↗
Sources & reference
Evidence & next depth
Retained Unihan properties
- kMandarin
- ba
- kCantonese
- baa6
- kDefinition
- emphatic final particle
- kTotalStrokes
- 7
- kRSUnicode
- 30.4
- kGradeLevel
- 1
- kTGH
- 2013:747
Readings across dictionaries
- Hanyu Da Zidian
- bā,ba,pā 10596.060
- Xiandai Hanyu · 1983
- bā 0015.060 · ba 0019.060
- Tongyong Guifan · 2013
- bā 006.070 · ba 008.030
- Reading counts · XDHYPLCD
- ba(2073)
- Mandarin / Cantonese · SMSZD
- bā粵baa1 ba粵baa6
Reference desk
- Fanqie spellings
- 普巴 伯加
- Kangxi positions
- 0178.040
- Guangyun positions
- 167.21 167.39
- Cangjie
- RAU
- Four-corner
- 6071.7 6701.7