霸

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇨🇳🇯🇵🇰🇷

tyrant

HSK 7

Human →Relations →Leaders

bà

ハ、ハク

はたがしら

패, 백

Components

雨 rain+ 革 leather+ 月 month =

霸 tyrant

雨 Meaning component

yǔ rain

rain

革

gé leather

leather, animal hides

月

yuè month

moon

Notes

Historical Evolution

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

霸

Regular

Modern

Chinese

霸 [bà]

hegemon; tyrant; lord; feudal chief; to rule by force; to usurp; (in modern advertising) master

Japanese

覇は同音

noun

supremacy (over a nation); hegemony; domination; leadership
championship; victory

Example Sentences

CHINESE WORDS (75)

争霸 [zhēngbà] #3,567

to contend for hegemony

争霸 [zhēngbà] #3,567

to contend for hegemony

the Way of the Hegemon

lit. to proclaim oneself hegemon

称霸 [chēngbà] #18,080

lit. to proclaim oneself hegemon

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JAPANESE WORDS (1)

那覇 [なは] #46,348

Naha (city in Okinawa)

KOREAN WORDS (2)