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Chinese Character/Word:
Definition(s) for: 哑巴
| Hanzi | Pinyin | Definition(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 哑巴 | yǎ ba | - a mute - mute; silent |
List Ranking:
Where rank 1 is most common, and higher numbers are less common.
| HSK 2 Level (2012) | HSK 3 Band (2022) | SUBTLEX-CH | BeijingUni Global | BeijingUni Weibo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | 11,017 | 23,398 | 16,093 |
Individual Character Breakdown:
| Simp | Pinyin | Eng |
|---|---|---|
| 哑 | yā | - (onom.) sound of cawing - sound of infant learning to talk - variant of 呀[ya1] |
| 哑 | yǎ | - mute; dumb; incapable of speech - (of a voice) hoarse; husky - (bound form) (of a bullet, bomb etc) dud |
| 巴 | bā | - Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan) - the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality - surname Ba - abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Ba1le4si1tan3] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Ba1ji1si1tan3] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Ba1xi] (Brazil) |
| 巴 | bā | - to long for - to wish - to cling to - to stick to - sth that sticks - close to - next to - spread open - informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4] - bar (unit of pressure) - nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail |
Other Words Containing 哑巴
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