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爸 — stroke order

bà
ㄅㄚˋ
Meaning
father
Strokes
8
Radical
父
Practise 爸 in the full tool →

Watch how to write 爸 (bà) stroke by stroke. 爸 has 8 strokes and means “father”. It appears in common words such as 爸爸 (father) and 老爸 (father). The animation follows the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap the cell or the ↺ button to replay it.

Common words with 爸

The most common words that use 爸 — tap any word to draw it stroke by stroke in the full tool.

爸爸bàbafather老爸lǎobàfather阿爸ābàAbba親爸qīnbàone's own father兔爸tùbàtoolbar

How 爸 is written

Radical
父
Components
父 + 巴
Formation
Pictophonetic character — formed from a semantic component 父 and a phonetic component 巴 (father).

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