霸
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hegemon; tyrant; lord; feudal chief; to rule by force; to usurp; (in modern advertising) master
21 strokes
Dict coverage rank #1,364 U+9738
How 霸 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
rain
How to remember it
tyrant · Heisig RSH #2838
雨 rain + 革 leather + flesh
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 霸 as their sound component
These characters all use 霸 (bà) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 霸 sound component | bà | tyrant; to usurp, to rule by might |
| 灞 | bà | a river in Shanxi province |
Words containing 霸
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 霸权主义 | bà quán zhǔ yì | hegemonism |
| 独霸一方 | dú bà yī fāng | to exercise sole hegemony (idiom); to dominate a whole area (market, resources etc); to ho… |
| 霸州市 | Bà zhōu Shì | Bazhou, a county-level city in Langfang City 廊坊市[Lang2 fang2 Shi4], Hebei |
| 横行霸道 | héng xíng bà dào | to oppress; to rule as a despot; to tyrannize |
| 星海争霸 | Xīng hǎi Zhēng bà | StarCraft (video game series) (Tw) |
| 巨无霸指数 | Jù wú bà Zhǐ shù | Big Mac Index, a measure of the purchasing power parity (PPP) between currencies |
| 金霸王 | Jīn bà wáng | Duracell (US brand of batteries etc) |
| 巨无霸汉堡包指数 | Jù wú bà Hàn bǎo bāo Zhǐ shù | Big Mac Index, a measure of the purchasing power parity (PPP) between currencies |
| 霸王龙 | bà wáng lóng | Tyrannosaurus rex |
| 爱词霸 | Ài cí bà | iCIBA, online dictionary by Kingsoft |
| 霸王树 | bà wáng shù | Madagascar palm (Pachypodium lamerei) |
| 星际争霸 | Xīng jì Zhēng bà | StarCraft (video game series) |
| 霸王条款 | bà wáng tiáo kuǎn | (law) unfair clause; unequal clause |
| 霸县 | Bà xiàn | Ba county in Tianjin |
| 春秋五霸 | Chūn qiū Wǔ bà | the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC), namely: Duke Huan of Qi 齊桓… |
| 学霸 | xué bà | (slang) straight-A student; academic prodigy |
| 街头霸王 | Jiē tóu Bà wáng | Street Fighter (video game series) |
| 霸机 | bà jī | (of passengers) to stage a sit-in after the plane has landed (as a protest against bad ser… |
| 霸气 | bà qì | imperious; aggressive; assertive; dictatorial manner; boldness (CL:股[gu3]) |
| 霸主 | bà zhǔ | a powerful chief of the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC); overlord; he… |