吧
babābiā HSK1

emphatic final particle

吧 ba frequency
suggestion modal particle
modal particle indicating a suggestion, command, or request

我们走吧。

wǒ​men zǒu ba.

Let's go.

presumption modal particle
modal particle indicating a guess, surmise, or presumption, often translated as "...I presume"

他快到了吧。

tā kuài dào le ba.

He should be arriving soon, right?

吧 bā
bang modal particle
onomatopoeia for a bang or cracking sound

只听吧的一声，木棍折断了。

zhǐ tīng bā de yī shēng, mù​gùn zhé​duàn le.

With a loud snap, the wooden stick broke.

bar noun
bar (loanword) (serving drinks, or providing Internet access etc)

这家酒吧的氛围很不错。

zhè jiā jiǔ bā de fēn​wéi hěn bù​cuò.

The atmosphere of this bar is very nice.

puff verb
to puff (on a pipe etc)

他悠闲地吧着旱烟袋。

tā yōu​xián de bā zhe hàn​yān​dài.

He was leisurely puffing on his tobacco pipe.

吧 biā
smack modal particle
(onom.) the sound of a smack or crack

吧的一声，打了一个耳光。

biā de yī shēng, dǎ le yī gè ěr​guāng.

With a slap, a blow was struck across the face.

Cross-References

Abbreviation of

Frequency
Character
Written text
470th most common 452.4 per million
Movie subtitles
40th most common 4209.1 per million appears in 100% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
5785.5 per million appears in 100% of films
Written text
946.1 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 2
HSK 3.0
Level 1
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+5427

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)