霸
bàpò HSK7

rule by might rather than right

霸 bà frequency
variant 覇
bully noun
a person who uses power or influence to oppress others; a tyrant or local big shot
hegemon
a powerful leader or feudal chief in ancient China, such as the 春秋五霸 chūn​qiū​wǔ​bà; also used for a modern dominant power
to dominate
to lord over; to rule by force or to illegally seize control of something
surname
a Chinese surname
Ba River
a river in Shaanxi province, also written as 灞 bà
霸 pò
variant 覇
waxing crescent
(literary) the first appearance of the moon in the lunar month

Cross-References

Same as

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,838th most common 44.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,913th most common 22.3 per million appears in 6% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.52 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
17.9 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
21
Unicode
U+9738

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