Read Edit View history 爸 bà HSK1 father Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents Phonosemantic compound. 父 represents the meaning and 巴 represents the sound. Components 父 父 Meaning component fù father 巴 巴 Sound component ba, bā to wish Historical Pronunciations Old ChineseZhengzhangpraːsbaʔ Sources Character origin 漢語多功能字庫Readings & variants Unicode Historical pronunciations Zhengzhang Shangfang