吧 bā bar (loanword) (serving drinks, or providing Internet access etc) / to puff (on a pipe etc) / (onom.) bang / abbr. for 貼吧|贴吧[tie1 ba1] syn 酒吧 jiǔ bā bar (place to buy drinks) / CL:家[jia1] syn 拦住 攔住 lán zhù to stop / to bar the way syn 图纸 圖紙 tú zhǐ blueprint / drawing / design plans / graph paper syn 雪糕 xuě gāo ice cream bar / ice cream popsicle syn 平面图 平面圖 píng miàn tú a plan / a planar graph / a plane figure 钢筋 鋼筋 gāng jīn steel reinforcing bar syn 小节 小節 xiǎo jié a minor matter / trivia / bar (music) syn 杠杆 槓桿 gàng gǎn lever / pry bar / crowbar / financial leverage 图形 圖形 tú xíng picture / figure / diagram / graph / depiction / graphical syn 示意图 示意圖 shì yì tú sketch / schematic diagram / graph 阻截 zǔ jié to stop / to obstruct / to bar the way syn 门闩 門閂 mén shuān horizontal bar to hold a door closed (made of wood or metal) / door bolt syn 金条 金條 jīn tiáo gold bar syn 出台 出臺 chū tái to officially launch (a policy, program etc) / to appear on stage / to appear publicly / (of a bar girl) to leave with a client syn 小吃店 xiǎo chī diàn snack bar / lunch room / CL:家[jia1] syn 一板一眼 yī bǎn yī yǎn lit. one strong beat and one weak beats in a measure of music (two beats in the bar) (idiom) / fig. follow a prescribed pattern to the letter / scrupulous attention to detail syn 夜场 夜場 yè chǎng evening show (at a theater etc) / nighttime entertainment venue (bar, nightclub, disco etc) 杠子 槓子 gàng zi thick bar / solid carrying pole syn 单杠 單槓 dān gàng bar / bold line / horizontal bar (gymnastics event) 钢条 鋼條 gāng tiáo steel bar 空格键 空格鍵 kòng gé jiàn space bar (keyboard) 拉杆 lā gān tension bar syn 曲线图 曲線圖 qū xiàn tú line graph / line diagram 条形 條形 tiáo xíng a bar / a strip syn 母线 母線 mǔ xiàn generating line / generatrix (in geometry) / bus (in electronics) / bus bar 均线 均線 jūn xiàn graph of average values 贴吧 貼吧 tiē bā Baidu Tieba, lit. "Baidu Post Bar", a Chinese online forum hosted by Baidu Inc. 呼出 hū chū to exhale / to breathe out / to make an outgoing call / (computing) to bring up (a menu, search bar, virtual keyboard etc) 吧台 bā tái counter of a bar (pub) 钢制 鋼製 gāng zhì made of steel / steel (bar, screw, product etc) 泡吧 pào bā to spend time in a bar (alcohol, Internet etc) / to go clubbing 标题栏 標題欄 biāo tí lán title bar (of a window) (computing) 菜单栏 菜單欄 cài dān lán menu bar (computing) 坐台 坐臺 zuò tái to work as a hostess in a bar or KTV 律师协会 律師協會 lǜ shī xié huì bar association 槽钢 槽鋼 cáo gāng steel groove / V-shaped steel bar 酒廊 jiǔ láng bar 棒材 bàng cái bar / rod 线图 線圖 xiàn tú line drawing / diagram / line graph 三陪小姐 sān péi xiǎo jie female escort / bar girl 柱状图 柱狀圖 zhù zhuàng tú bar chart 图论 圖論 tú lùn graph theory (math.) 图论 圖論 tú lún graph theory (math.) 巴 bā to long for / to wish / to cling to / to stick to / sth that sticks / close to / next to / spread open / informal abbr. for bus 巴士[ba1 shi4] / bar (unit of pressure) / nominalizing suffix on certain nouns, such as 尾巴[wei3 ba5], tail syn 杠 槓 gàng coffin-bearing pole (old) / thick pole / bar / rod / thick line / to mark with a thick line / to sharpen (a knife, razor etc) / to get into a dispute with / standard / criterion / hyphen / dash syn 银条 銀條 yín tiáo silver bar 摸吧 mō bā touch bar (hostess bar that allows physical contact) 条形图 條形圖 tiáo xíng tú bar chart 士力架 shì lì jià Snickers (candy bar) 把儿 把兒 bà r a handle syn 楗 jiàn material (such as rocks, earth, bamboo etc) used to hastily repair a dike / (literary) door bar (vertical bar used to prevent the horizontal movement of a door bolt) 一板三眼 yī bǎn sān yǎn lit. one strong beat and three weak beats in a measure of music (four beats in the bar) (idiom) / fig. scrupulous attention to detail 磨杵成针 磨杵成針 mó chǔ chéng zhēn to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom) / fig. to persevere in a difficult task / to study diligently syn 只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针 只要功夫深，鐵杵磨成針 zhǐ yào gōng fu shēn , tiě chǔ mó chéng zhēn If you work at it hard enough, you can grind an iron bar into a needle. / cf idiom 磨杵成針|磨杵成针, to grind an iron bar down to a fine needle (idiom) / fig. to persevere in a difficult task / to study diligently 横杠 橫槓 héng gàng bar / horizontal bar 顶杆 頂桿 dǐng gǎn top bar / crown bar 顶棒 頂棒 dǐng bàng bucking bar (metal bar fixing the tail of a rivet as it is driven) 棒棒机 棒棒機 bàng bàng jī bar phone (cell phone shaped like a bar of candy) 方格纸 方格紙 fāng gé zhǐ squared paper / graph paper / grid paper (manuscript paper with squares for Chinese characters) 生成树 生成樹 shēng chéng shù spanning tree (in graph theory) 闭图象定理 閉圖象定理 bì tú xiàng dìng lǐ closed graph theorem (math.) 数字线划图 digital line graph 槓 gàng carrying pole / horizontal bar 审判栏 審判欄 shěn pàn lán judgment bar 扊 yǎn upright bar for fastening a door 栒 xún cross bar 吧托 bā tuō scam girl / woman who lures men to an exorbitantly priced bar 酒吧[jiu3 ba1] 吧托女 bā tuō nǚ scam girl / woman who lures men to an exorbitantly priced bar 酒吧[jiu3 ba1] 坐台小姐 zuò tái xiǎo jiě bar girl / professional escort 小节线 小節線 xiǎo jié xiàn (music) bar line 巴伊兰大学 巴伊蘭大學 bā yī lán dà xué Bar-Ilan University, in Israel 快餐部 kuài cān bù snack bar / buffet 拉马特甘 拉馬特甘 lā mǎ tè gān Ramat Gan, city in Israel, location of Bar-Ilan University 斑头雁 斑頭雁 bān tóu yàn (bird species of China) bar-headed goose (Anser indicus) 标金 標金 biāo jīn standard gold bar / deposit when submitting a tender 沙坝 沙壩 shā bà a sandbank / a sand bar 浅滩指示浮标 淺灘指示浮標 qiǎn tān zhǐ shì fú biāo bar buoy / buoy marking shallows or sandbar 盘杠子 盤杠子 pán gàng zi to carry out gymnastic tricks on horizontal bar 菜单条 菜單條 cài dān tiáo menu bar (of a computer application) 边坝 邊壩 biān bà Banbar county, Tibetan: Dpal 'bar rdzong, in Chamdo prefecture 昌都地區|昌都地区[Chang1 du1 di4 qu1], Tibet 边坝县 邊壩縣 biān bà xiàn Banbar county, Tibetan: Dpal 'bar rdzong, in Chamdo prefecture 昌都地區|昌都地区[Chang1 du1 di4 qu1], Tibet 酒肆 jiǔ sì wine shop / liquor store / bottle shop / bar / pub 马尔康 馬爾康 mǎ ěr kāng Barkam town (Tibetan: 'bar khams), capital of Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[A1 ba4 Zang4 zu2 Qiang1 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], northwest Sichuan 马尔康县 馬爾康縣 mǎ ěr kāng xiàn Barkam County (Tibetan: 'bar khams rdzong) in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[A1 ba4 Zang4 zu2 Qiang1 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], northwest Sichuan 马尔康镇 馬爾康鎮 mǎ ěr kāng zhèn Barkam town (Tibetan: 'bar khams), capital of Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州[A1 ba4 Zang4 zu2 Qiang1 zu2 Zi4 zhi4 zhou1], northwest Sichuan 纽约市律师协会 紐約市律師協會 Association of the Bar of the City of New York 美洲律师协会 美洲律師協會 Inter-American Bar Association 国际律师协会 國際律師協會 International Bar Association 英格兰和威尔士律师公会人权委员会 英格蘭和威爾士律師公會人權委員會 Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales 美国律师公会 美國律師公會 American Bar Association 条形码阅读机 條形碼閱讀機 bar code reader 美国律师公会中欧和东欧法律倡议 美國律師公會中歐和東歐法律倡議 American Bar Association Central and Eastern European Law Initiative / Central and Eastern European Law Initiative 杆校准 桿校準 bar check 条形雷 條形雷 bar mine 斑喉希鹛 斑喉希鶥 bān hóu xī méi (bird species of China) bar-throated minla (Actinodura strigula) 斑尾塍鹬 斑尾塍鷸 bān wěi chéng yù (bird species of China) bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) 斑翅鹩鹛 斑翅鷯鶥 bān chì liáo méi (bird species of China) bar-winged wren-babbler (Spelaeornis troglodytoides) 