IDENTITY
爸bàfather; dad
HSK 1Top 620
CORE MEANING
father; dad
- Part of speech
- noun
- Register
- informal
Senses
- 1.dad; fatherHSK1
FORM & BREAKDOWN
- Radical
- 父father radical (fù)
- strokes
- 8
- Structure
- top-bottom compound
- IDS sequence
- ⿱父巴
- father
- gives the sound bà
USAGE
Common words
爸爸bàbadad
Graded examples
爸爸工作很忙。Bàba gōngzuò hěn máng.HSK1
Dad is very busy at work.
RELATIONS
Lookalike — don’t mix up
- 爬
LEARNING
Memory aid
Father (父) plus the sound bā (巴) — bà, dad.
- HSK version
- 3.0
- Frequency rank
- #620
- Memory aid
- memory-aid
TRUST & SOURCES
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- AI-assisted editorial review
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-15
Sources
- CC-CEDICT 2026-01-01
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