巴

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) place

Glyph origin
— a huge snake.

Etymology 1

 * "huge snake"
 * . Compare
 * 🇨🇬, where is possibly an animal prefix ;
 * 🇨🇬 (cf. );
 * 🇨🇬, Brag-dbar 🇨🇬, Cogtse 🇨🇬, which have been related to , whence , 🇨🇬.


 * "bar"
 * Borrowed from.

Definitions

 * 1)  a huge snake that could swallow an elephant
 * 2) to greatly desire; to anxiously hope; to long for
 * 3) to cling to; to stick to
 * 4)  to be close to; to be next to
 * 5)  to open; to spread
 * 6)  to suit; to fit
 * 7)  to follow
 * 8)  to be intimate
 * 9)  to involve; to implicate
 * 10)  to kiss up; to curry favour
 * 11)  to subsidize
 * 12)  to infect; to contract
 * 13)  to sew; to stitch on
 * 14)  dried object
 * 15)  along
 * 16) eastern Sichuan and Chongqing
 * 17)  bar unit of pressure
 * 1)  to sew; to stitch on
 * 2)  dried object
 * 3)  along
 * 4) eastern Sichuan and Chongqing
 * 5)  bar unit of pressure
 * 1) eastern Sichuan and Chongqing
 * 2)  bar unit of pressure
 * 1)  bar unit of pressure
 * 1)  bar unit of pressure
 * 1)  bar unit of pressure

Etymology 1


First attested around the 12th century.

Originally a compound of 🇰🇲.

The use of the kanji is possibly for its resemblance to a big snake.

Noun

 * 1) a circular design resembling swirling water, a comma, or an archer's bow
 * 2)  a piece of wood, usually a floorboard or an eave, with a tomoe pattern
 * 3) an oxcart with the wickerwork in a tomoe pattern
 * 4) a  with various tomoe designs
 * 5)  a tile with a tomoe design
 * 6) turning

Proper noun

 * 1)  12th-century female samurai
 * 2) a  based on a story from 

Etymology 2
From. The reading, so likely a later borrowing.

Etymology
From.