垻
bà HSK7

an embankment

坝 (垻) bà
plain noun
plain or flatland, frequently used in place names in Southwest China

这里的坝子非常适合耕种。

zhè​lǐ de bà zi fēi​cháng shì​hé gēng​zhòng.

The small plain here is very suitable for farming.

sandbar noun
a sandbar or shoal in a river or body of water

枯水季节，河中露出了大片的沙坝。

kū​shuǐ jì​jié, hé zhōng lù​chū le dà piàn de shā​bà.

During the dry season, large sandbars are exposed in the river.

Frequency
Character
Written text
2,786th most common 13.2 per million
Movie subtitles
2,916th most common 3.95 per million appears in 1% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
0.420 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
15.6 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Simplified
坝
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+57BB

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