跋 — Chinese character
跋
bá
to walk, to travel; epilogue, colophon
- Pinyin
- bá
- Radical
- 157 ⾜ (Foot)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 足 犮
- Formation
- pictophonetic — foot; meaning component 足; sound component 犮
- Japanese
- 跋 as a kanji
Common words with 跋
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 跋涉 | bá shè | to trudge; to trek |
| 长途跋涉 (長途跋涉) | cháng tú bá shè | long and difficult trek |
| 跋扈 | bá hù | domineering; bossy |
| 跋山涉水 | bá shān shè shuǐ | to travel over land and water (idiom) |
| 题跋 (題跋) | tí bá | short comments; preface and postscript |
| 序跋 | xù bá | preface and postscript |
| 飞扬跋扈 (飛揚跋扈) | fēi yáng bá hù | bossy and domineering; throwing one's weight about |
| 嚣张跋扈 (囂張跋扈) | xiāo zhāng bá hù | arrogant and despotic |
| 跋前疐后 (跋前疐後) | bá qián zhì hòu | see 跋胡疐尾 (bá hú zhì wěi) |
| 跋前踬后 (跋前躓後) | bá qián zhì hòu | see 跋胡疐尾 (bá hú zhì wěi) |
| 跋杯 (跋桮) | bá bēi | (Tw) (folk religion) to divine by casting moon blocks 筊杯 (jiǎo bēi) (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [pua̍h-pue]) (equivalent to Mandarin 掷筊 (zhì jiǎo)) |
| 跋胡疐尾 | bá hú zhì wěi | (idiom, from Book of Songs) unable to advance or retreat |
English words written with 跋
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.