HSK7-9
bà
embankment
Phonosemantic compound. 土 represents the meaning and 贝 represents the sound. Simplified form of 壩.
土 Meaning component
tǔ
earth
贝 Sound component
bèi
sea shell
Traditional script
Simplified script
坝 (壩)
embankment; dam; dike; CL:條|条[tiáo]
坝
dam
大坝
水坝
堤坝
葛洲坝
name of a place, Gezhouba Dam on the Changjiang River, in Sichuan
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Unicode
Dong Chinese
CC-CEDICT
SUBTLEX-CH
MTSU Chinese text computing