罢
bàba HSK6

cease

罢 (罷) bà frequency
dismiss verb
to dismiss from office or remove from a position

因在任期间表现不佳，他不幸被罢官回乡。

yīn zài​rèn qī​jiān biǎo​xiàn bù jiā, tā bù​xìng bèi bà guān huí​xiāng.

Due to poor performance during his term, he was unfortunately dismissed from office and sent back home.

finish verb
to finish or complete an action

吃罢饭，他就匆匆离开了。

chī bà fàn, tā jiù cōng​cōng lí​kāi le.

Having finished the meal, he left in a hurry.

stop verb
to stop, cease, suspend, or quit an activity

既然大家意见不统一，这个计划只好就此作罢。

jì​rán dà​jiā yì​jiàn bù tǒng​yī, zhè​ge jì​huà zhǐ​hǎo jiù​cǐ zuò​bà.

Since there is no consensus, the plan will have to be abandoned.

罢 (罷) ba
modal particle verb
final particle indicating suggestion, request, or doubt (same as 吧 ba)

我们走罢。

wǒ​men zǒu ba.

Let's go.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,305th most common 95.6 per million
Movie subtitles
1,489th most common 43.9 per million appears in 22% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
3.55 per million appears in 2% of films
Written text
18.7 per million

Details
HSK 2.0
Level 6
HSK 3.0
Level 6
Traditional
罷
Strokes
10
Unicode
U+7F62

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