巴

bā

1. to long for
2. to wish
3. to cling to
4. to stick to
5. sth that sticks
6. close to
7. next to
8. spread open
9. informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4]
10. bar (unit of pressure)
11. nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail

Bā name

1. Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan)
2. the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality
3. surname Ba
4. (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Ba1 le4 si1 tan3] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Ba1 ji1 si1 tan3] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Ba1 xi1] (Brazil)