吧 ba
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 口 — mouth
- Made of
- 口 mouth 巴 to desire, to wish for
- How it's built
- Phono-semantic — one part hints at the meaning, another at the sound
吧
ba
particle for suggestions (let's…) or guesses (…right?)
Character
Example phrases
- 你是学生吧？ Nǐ shì xuésheng ba? You're a student, right?
- 我们走吧。 Wǒmen zǒu ba. Let's go.
- 你是老师吧？ Nǐ shì lǎoshī ba? You're a teacher, aren't you?
Related words
- 呢 ne particle for questions (what about…?) and ongoing actions
- 了 le particle for a completed action or a change
- 的 de possessive particle ('s, of)
- 地 de particle linking an adverbial to a verb (-ly)
- 着 zhe particle for an ongoing action or state (-ing)
- 子 zi noun suffix
- 都 dōu all, both
- 也 yě also, too
- 还 hái still, yet; also
- 还有 háiyǒu there is still; and also
- 就 jiù then, right away; just
- 再 zài again; then