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bā

Meanings

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bā

1.eight (banker's anti-fraud numeral)
2.split

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Wiktionary

1.to break
2.sound of breaking
3.a surname
4.to know; to recognise; to be familiar with
5.to know (somebody)
6.to know how to (do something)
7.already; previously

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Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *preːd, *praːd): semantic 扌 (“hand”) + phonetic 別 (OC *pred, *bred). From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pV-rjat (“eight”).

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Stroke order

Components

捌扌别

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

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