吧
HSK 1freq #58
Meanings
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- 1.(modal particle indicating suggestion or surmise)
- 2....right?
- 3....OK?
- 4....I presume.
- 1.(onom.) smack!
- 1.bar (loanword) (serving drinks, or providing Internet access etc)
- 2.to puff (on a pipe etc)
- 3.(onom.) bang
- 4.abbr. for 贴吧[tiē bā]
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Wiktionary
- 1.Emphatic final particle; used at the end of a sentence to
- 2.indicate a suggested action: why don't you ...; let us ...
- 3.indicate a speculation.
- 4.Used at the end of a sentence used to concede a point.
- 5.Used at the end of a sentence used to indicate disapproving incredulousness.
- 6.Used after the topic for emphasis.
- 7.sound of crackling; crack
- 8.pow!; smack!
- 9.to smoke (a cigarette)
- 10.bar
- 11.Used in transcription.
- 12.only used in 吧呀
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Etymology
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声 (xíngshēng)): semantic 口 (kǒu) + phonetic 巴 (OC *praː). From 罷／罢 (bà) and 夫 (OC *ba, “is it not?”), itself a contraction of 不乎.
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
走吧。
Let's leave.
走吧。
Let's go!
不会吧。
Oh no!
留着吧。
Keep it.
拿走吧。
Take it.
试试吧。
Try it.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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Related words
酒吧 bar (place to buy drinks)网吧 Internet café吧嗒 (onom.) patter, splatter, click吧台 counter of a bar (pub)泡吧 to spend time in a bar (alcohol, Internet etc)吧唧 to smack one's lips迪吧 disco (coll.)贴吧 Baidu Tieba, lit. "Baidu Post Bar", a Chinese online forum hosted by Baidu Inc.吧托 scam girl吧女 barmaid吧唧 (onom.) squishing sound爆吧 spam flooding