巴 士 海 峡

Bā shì Hǎi xiádictionary entry

Bashi Channel in the northern part of the Luzon Strait, just south of Taiwan

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Original source entry:

巴士海峽 巴士海峡 [Ba1 shi4 Hai3 xia2] /Bashi Channel in the northern part of the Luzon Strait, just south of Taiwan/

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巴
bā
to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士[bā shì] / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wěi ba], tail
Bā
Ba, a state during the Zhou dynasty (in present-day Chongqing and the eastern part of Sichuan) / the east of Sichuan and Chongqing Municipality / surname Ba / (bound form) abbr. for 巴勒斯坦[Bā lè sī tǎn] (Palestine), 巴基斯坦[Bā jī sī tǎn] (Pakistan) or 巴西[Bā xī] (Brazil)
士
shì
member of the senior ministerial class (old) / scholar (old) / bachelor / honorific / soldier / noncommissioned officer / specialist worker
Shì
surname Shi
海
hǎi
ocean / sea / CL:個|个[gè],片[piàn] / great number of people or things / (dialect) numerous
Hǎi
surname Hai
峡
xiá
gorge

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