爸爸 (bà ba): meaning and stroke order
爸爸 (bà ba) means (coll.) father; dad, 个,位.
爸爸
- Simplified
- 爸爸
- Traditional
- 爸爸 (same form)
- Pinyin
- bà ba
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Stroke order of 爸爸
爸
- bà father; dad
- 8 strokes
Stroke by stroke
爸
- bà father; dad
- 8 strokes
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Meaning of 爸爸
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bà ba
- (coll.) father; dad
- CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]
Radicals of the characters
- 爸
- Radical 父 (Kangxi radical 88) · 8 strokes · 父 on top, 巴 below
Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.
爸爸 in our stories
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这是他爸爸和妈妈。
zhè shì tā bàba hé māma
This is his dad and his mum.
From the story A photo HSK 1
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春节前一天，冬冬和爸爸妈妈坐火车回爷爷奶奶家。
Chūnjié qián yì tiān Dōngdong hé bàba māma zuò huǒchē huí yéye nǎinai jiā
The day before the Spring Festival, Dongdong and his parents take the train to his grandparents' home.
From the story New Year at Grandma and Grandpa's HSK 2
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爸爸尝了一口，半天没说话，最后对妈妈说：“至少让她把两件事都试一试吧。”
bàba cháng le yì kǒu bàntiān méi shuōhuà zuìhòu duì māma shuō zhìshǎo ràng tā bǎ liǎng jiàn shì dōu shì yí shì ba
Her father tasted it, said nothing for a long while, and finally told her mother, "At least let her try both."
From the story The three-tier cake HSK 5
Where you learn it
爸爸 appears in the vocabulary of our HSK 1 learning material. This is a Mythic Mandarin word list, not an official HSK list.
Stories using 爸爸
- A photo HSK 1
- New Year at Grandma and Grandpa's HSK 2
- The three-tier cake HSK 5
Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).