芭
bā HSK7

plantain or banana palm

芭 bā
banana herb noun
used in the compound word for banana or plantain (芭蕉 bā​jiāo)

他在窗外种了一株芭蕉。

tā zài chuāng wài zhòng le yī zhū bā jiāo.

He planted a Japanese banana tree outside the window.

fragrant plant noun
an unidentified fragrant plant mentioned in the Songs of Chu (Chu Ci)

这种被称为芭的香草，在古代是一种名贵的植物。

zhè zhǒng bèi chēng​wéi bā de xiāng​cǎo, zài gǔ​dài shì yī zhǒng míng​guì de zhí​wù.

This fragrant herb known as 'ba' was a precious plant in ancient times.

transliteration noun
used in phonetic transliterations of foreign words and names

他在电视上看芭蕾舞表演。

tā zài diàn​shì shàng kàn bā lěi wǔ biǎo​yǎn.

He is watching a ballet performance on TV.

Frequency
Character
Written text
3,126th most common 8.35 per million
Movie subtitles
1,663rd most common 33.8 per million appears in 7% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
4.14 per million appears in 1% of films
Written text
8.51 per million

Details
HSK 3.0
Level 7
Strokes
7
Unicode
U+82AD

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