Chinese symbol for “samba”
桑巴
sāng bā
samba (dance) (loanword)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for samba is 桑巴 (sāng bā), defined as: samba (dance) (loanword).
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “samba”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 桑巴.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 沧桑 (滄桑) | cāng sāng | great changes; ups and downs |
| 桑拿 | sāng ná | (loanword) sauna |
| 桑树 (桑樹) | sāng shù | mulberry tree |
| 沧海桑田 (滄海桑田) | cāng hǎi sāng tián | lit. the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom); fig. the transformations of the world |
| 桑那 | sāng nà | sauna (loanword) |
| 巴士 | bā shì | bus (loanword); motor coach |
| 鸡巴 (雞巴) | jī ba | dick; penis (vulgar) |
| 嘴巴 | zuǐ ba | mouth (张 (zhāng)); slap in the face |
See also: Japanese symbol for “samba”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.