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  1. 1.(bound form) father
  2. 2.(bound form) male relative of father's generation (as in 伯父[bó fù])
  3. 3.(computing) (bound form) parent-

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.father (male parent)
  2. 2.Used to address a male elder member of a family.
  3. 3.father (pioneering male figure in a particular field)
  4. 4.Father; God the Father
  5. 5.old man; elderly man
  6. 6.a surname

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Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – A hand holding a stone blade, referring to a man working with a stone axe. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *paʔ (“male; father”). Regular development from Middle Chinese would lead to the labiodental fù in Mandarin, but the colloquial word resisted the sound changes and is now written as 爸 (bà), with the 巴 (bā) phonetic component added to it to indicate the unchanged bilabial initial.

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