爸爸 bàba▶ padre

Stroke order

爸爸 is written in 16 strokes across 2 characters.

• 爸 — 8 strokes
• 爸 — 8 strokes

Example sentences

• 我爸爸是医生。Wǒ bàba shì yīshēng.My father is a doctor.
• 爸爸在看书。Bàba zài kàn shū.Father is reading.

Related words

• 时候tiempo
• 妈妈madre

爸爸 is pronounced bàba and means “padre”. You will meet it in HSK 1, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 爸爸 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.