爸

Meanings

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *praːs, *baʔ): semantic 父 (“father”) + phonetic 巴 (OC *praː). Colloquial form of 父 (OC *baʔ, “father”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *p/ba (“male; father”). The pronunciation of 爸, unlike 父, retains the bilabial onset in modern Chinese varieties.

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Components

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Example sentences

• 我爸种水稻。

  My father grows rice.

• 你是我爸吗？

  Are you my father?

• 爸，你干啥呢？

  What are you doing, Dad?

• 我爸釣魚去了。

  My father went fishing.

• 我爸去釣魚了。

  My father went fishing.

• 我爸会杀了我的。

  My father will kill me.

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