bà

爸

dad / father

HSK 3.0 · 1
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家人与年龄Lesson 2 · Family & Ages vocab 我的家HSK 3.0 · Lesson 3 · My Family vocab 在哪儿HSK 3.0 · Lesson 8 · Where Is It? 我的一天HSK 3.0 · Lesson 11 · My Day

Words with 爸

爸爸 bà ba (coll.) father; dad HSK 1

Examples from your lessons

  • 我爸爸今年四十五岁。 My dad is 45 years old this year. Lesson 2
  • 是的！这是我爸爸，这是我妈妈。 Yes! This is my dad, this is my mom. Lesson 2
  • 你爸爸今年多大？ How old is your dad this year? Lesson 2
  • 我家有四口人：爸爸、妈妈、哥哥和我。 There are four of us: Dad, Mom, my older brother and me. Lesson 103
  • 我家有五口人：爷爷、奶奶、爸爸、妈妈和我。 Five: Grandpa, Grandma, Dad, Mom and me. Lesson 103
  • 我坐在爸爸和妈妈中间。 I sit between Dad and Mom. Lesson 108

Character facts

Radical
父 father, dad
Parts
父 + 巴
Structure
Top–bottom
Unicode
U+7238

Pictophonetic: father

Same radical 父
diē 爹
Same sound
bā 八 bā 吧 bǎ 把 bá 拔 bà 坝 bā 扒
Also HSK 1
de 的 le 了 wǒ 我 shì 是 nǐ 你 zài 在 bù 不 yǒu 有