跋
postscript; to trek across mountains
12 strokes
Dict coverage rank #2,743 U+8DCB
How 跋 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
足 (semantic, “foot”) + 犮 (phonetic, bá)
Phonetic series: characters sharing the sound component 犮
Siblings built with the same phonetic component 犮 (bá) — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 犮 sound component | bá | to pull up |
| 拔 | bá | to uproot, to pull out; to select, to promote |
| 钹 | bó | cymbals |
| 祓 | fú | to exorcise; to cleanse |
| 鲅 | bà | Chinese mackerel |
| 魃 | bá | drought demon |
| 茇 | bá | straw, thatch |
| 黻 | fú | special pattern of embroidery |
Words containing 跋
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 跋山涉水 | bá shān shè shuǐ | to travel over land and water (idiom) |
| 跋语 | bá yǔ | short comment or critical appraisal added at the end of a text, on a painting etc |
| 长途跋涉 | cháng tú bá shè | long and difficult trek |
| 题跋 | tí bá | short comments; preface and postscript |
| 序跋 | xù bá | preface and postscript |
| 跋杯 | bá bēi | (Tw) (folk religion) to divine by casting moon blocks 筊杯[jiao3 bei1] (from Taiwanese, Tai-… |
| 飞扬跋扈 | fēi yáng bá hù | bossy and domineering; throwing one's weight about |
| 跋前疐后 | bá qián zhì hòu | see 跋胡疐尾[ba2 hu2 zhi4 wei3] |
| 跋胡疐尾 | bá hú zhì wěi | (idiom, from Book of Songs) unable to advance or retreat |
| 跋涉 | bá shè | to trudge; to trek |
| 拓跋魏 | Tuò bá Wèi | Wei of the Northern Dynasties (386-534) |
| 拓跋 | Tuò bá | branch of the Xianbei 鮮卑|鲜卑 nomadic people, founders of Wei 北魏 of the Northern Dynasties (… |
| 跋前踬后 | bá qián zhì hòu | see 跋胡疐尾[ba2 hu2 zhi4 wei3] |
| 嚣张跋扈 | xiāo zhāng bá hù | arrogant and despotic |
| 跋扈 | bá hù | domineering; bossy |