巴啦

Chinese

		(suff. for certain nouns); to hope; to wish (suff. for certain nouns); to hope; to wish; Palestinian, Palestine (abbrev.); Pakistan (abbrev.); Pascal (unit of pressure)	(an auxiliary word performing the grammatical functions of mood); fusion of le + a; (onomat.) (an auxiliary word performing the grammatical functions of mood); fusion of le + a; (onomat.); phonetic
simp. and trad. (巴啦)		巴	啦
alternative forms		巴拉 吧啦

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): bālā

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄚ ㄌㄚ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: bālā
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄚ ㄌㄚ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: bala
    • Wade–Giles: pa¹-la¹
    • Yale: bā-lā
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: balha
    • Palladius: бала (bala)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pä⁵⁵ lä⁵⁵/

Interjection

巴啦

1. blah (imitative of meaningless talk)

Usage notes

Usually repeated: 巴啦巴啦 (bālā bālā).