Keyword
dam
- embankment
- Frequency
- #2439
- Strokes
- 7
Readings
bà
Mnemonic
土 (earth) gives the meaning and 贝 the sound.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in vocabulary
大坝
dam
水坝
dam; dike
坝
(used in place names) plain; flatland; (dialect) sandbar; shoal; dam; dike; embankment
三峡大坝
Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River
堤坝
dam; dike
葛洲坝
name of a place, Gezhouba Dam on the Changjiang River, in Sichuan
溃坝
(of a dam) to be breached; to burst
沙坪坝区
Shapingba, a district of Chongqing 重庆 (Chóngqìng)
阿坝县
Ngawa, a county in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿坝藏族羌族自治州 (ĀbàZàngzúQiāngzúZìzhìzhōu), Sichuan
沙坝
a sandbank; a sand bar
土坝
earth dam; dam of earth and rocks (as opposed to waterproof dam of clay or concrete)
拱坝
an arch dam
阿坝藏族羌族自治州
Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, in Sichuan Province 四川省 (SìchuānShěng)
拦河坝
a dam across a river
留坝县
Liuba, a county in Hanzhong City 汉中市 (HànzhōngShì), Shaanxi
边坝县
Banbar, a county in Chamdo City 昌都市 (ChāngdūShì), Tibet
向家坝
Xiangjiaba Dam, Yunnan, site of a hydropower station
院坝
(dialect) courtyard
绿坝
Green Dam, content-control software, in use during 2009-2010 (abbr. for 綠壩·绿坝·花季护航[Lu:4 ba4 · Hua1 ji4 Hu4 hang2])
冰坝
freezing blockage; dam of ice on river