吧 ba▶

Stroke order

吧 is written in 7 strokes.

• 吧

Senses

1. bar (loanword) (serving drinks, or providing Internet access etc)
2. to puff (on a pipe etc)
3. (onom.) bang

Example sentences

• 我们走吧。Wǒmen zǒu ba.Let’s go.
• 吃米饭吧。Chī mǐfàn ba.Let’s eat rice.
• 你喝茶吧。Nǐ hē chá ba.You can have some tea.

Related words

• 酒吧บาร์, แท่ง, กั้น

吧 is pronounced ba. It belongs to the HSK 2 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 吧 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.