鲃 (bā): barb, a barbel-bearing carp-fam…

Measure Word

一条鲃鱼 tiáo

我们打算这个周末一起去爬山。

Wǒmen dǎsuàn zhège zhōumò yìqǐ qù páshān.

We plan to climb the mountain together this weekend.

history

Rarely used alone, almost always in 鲃鱼 (barb). It is the fish radical 鱼 plus phonetic 巴, the same sound element behind 爬 and 把.

radical

鱼 yú

fish

The fish radical on the left, a pictograph of a fish. It supplies the meaning, marking the word as a species of fish, the same family as 鲤 and 鲢.

phonetic

巴 bā

to cling; phonetic

The right side carries the sound bā exactly. The same phonetic gives the reading of 吧 and 疤; here it lends pronunciation only.

鲃 bā