吧
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This word has multiple dictionary entries. Choose the reading or usage you want to review.
Definitions
- 1. bar (loanword) (serving drinks, or providing Internet access etc)
- 2. to puff (on a pipe etc)
- 3. (onom.) bang
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Collocations
吧 is commonly used as a suffix in loanwords for places like 酒吧 (bar), 网吧 (Internet café), and 书吧 (book bar).
Formality
As a loanword, 吧 is neutral in formality and widely used in everyday speech.
Example Sentences
3 shown我们去那个新开的 吧 喝一杯 吧 。
我们晚上去那个新开的 吧 喝一杯 吧 。
唱 吧 跳 吧 ！
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Words Containing 吧
Internet café
bar
You figure it out for yourself.
message board moderator or administrator
forum manager
counter of a bar (pub)
(onom.) squishing sound
to smack one's lips
(onom.) smacking the lips
(loanword) blah blah blah
(onom.) patter, splatter, click
barmaid
scam girl
scam girl
source of oxygen (of forests and nature reserves)
touch bar (hostess bar that allows physical contact)
(dialect) give me a break!
to spend time in a bar (alcohol, Internet etc)
spam flooding
(coll.) Don't waste your breath.
Baidu Tieba, lit. \Baidu Post Bar\, a Chinese online forum hosted by Baidu Inc.
disco (coll.)
discotheque
aw, fuck! (loanword from Korean 아! 씨발!)